Been out from the GRAILS-game for a while for various reasons.
What IDE is the best now? Before it was really a, b, c - deploy but it seems it's not as tied to Eclipse as it was...is STS still in the game?
Thanks in advance!
What IDE is the best now?
You aren't going to get a consensus answer to that. IntelliJ IDEA is widely regarded as very good, and it is. A data point is everyone on the core Grails team uses IntelliJ IDEA for Grails development.
Before it was really a, b, c - deploy but it seems it's not as tied to Eclipse as it was...
I don't know what that means.
is STS still in the game?
No. Groovy Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) was the extension to STS that added a bunch of Groovy and Grails tooling but that was pretty much moth-balled when we left Pivotal 5 years ago. It is open source but no one has picked it up to run with it.