I thought this discussion will be helpful for many :)

I use C++. I use Visual C++ 6.0 which comes with visula studio 6.0. This has excellent debugging and the editor looks quite nice to me, no need to create project. But the problem is, while debugging i cant see the vector elements (same for other STL elements). Another problem is, __int64, i face lot of trouble for topcoder contests. Other editor like netbeans, eclipse and higher versions of visual studio etc requires creation of project, I do not like this. Spending time for creating project is just waste of time :P

For Java, Jcreator / JBuilder seems nice to me. They don't need project creation. But it seems to me that they are somewhat slower than C++, though some leading coders use java.