Is Dreamweaver CS5 a serious choice for theme/plugin development?

I guess the only real cons are it offers nothing that you cannot get with other editors, but without the massive bloat and pricetag.

An IDE comes down to a lot of personal preferences and feel, since you have a lot of choice, some people swear by Notepad++, TextMate, or Gedit, others prefer something with more PHP features like NetBeans or PhpStorm.

Here is a list of PHP based IDE’s
A list of text editors

Personally I really dislike DW.

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