The Welkin Suite IDE

What do you like best?

It is feature rich, it uses Microsoft Visual Studio shell so its a very comfortable product and it is well tuned for developing in Salesforce. They also update it quite frequently so it stays up to date.

What do you dislike?

If there is anything to dislike it would be having to pay for a quality product monthly rather than once and owning it. Not that I don't feel it is worth the price, I am very happy I made the switch to this IDE from a free IDE that was no longer being supported and the price is reasonable. But even at a reasonable price I tend to wish I could be done paying for it and they would just provide super great maintenance year over year for free.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

There is a learning curve involved but there are a lot of videos that help with the features and its worth it when you get to the promised land.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

There are huge time savings to be had. With free IDE's there tends to be a lot more bugginess in general, gaps and things to work through. As a Salesforce developer and consultant saving a couple of hours a month because the IDE is solid equals additional billable hours and reduction in frustration which is far in excess of the monthly fee.