[PLUG-Devel] IDE

[Kevin Bowling]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Joseph Sinclair <plug-devel at stcaz.net> wrote:
> I have used many IDE's (but not xcode, I don't use Mac).
> I generally prefer Netbeans for most development, I like it's interface and it's simple and fast compared to Eclipse.
> Eclipse is not too bad for C++ (but it's often horribly unstable on Linux due to bad "plugins").
> Both Eclipse and Netbeans are cross-platform and written in Java.  Netbeans is dual-licensed CDDL and GPL v2; Eclipse has it's own Open-Source license.

Indeed, it depends a lot on the language you plan to write in.

I like Eclipse for Java and it can be extended to work well with many
languages, bug trackers, version control, etc. but it has a fairly
rigid project model that might take getting used to for a vi convert.
The Netbeans Swing UI throws me for a loop but it looks like it has
otherwise very good implementation.  Both of these are very good for
common languages you might use to implement web applications.

> For Linux users, there are some nice native tools as well.
>  MonoDevelop is not too bad if you want to develop C# or VB.Net code.
>  KDevelop is nice for QT/KDE development.
>  Code::Blocks (codeblocks) is a good very-simple IDE, a good transition from vi for C/C++ coding.

If you want a nice C++ environment that just works, Qt Creator is
really clean.  It works on Mac, Windows, and Linux and contains the
excellent Qt library for making C++ GUI apps.  KDevelop has the best
C++ introspection and autocompletion I've seen but they are in the
midst of a toolkit transition and it lacks a bit of polish.

>
> steve young wrote:
>> I'm an old school programmer and have used vi.

Don't be too quick discount vi, you might be impressed with gvim to
add just a bit to what you are already used to.  Kate and gedit can
perform similar light weight roles.  I prefer Kate to an IDE when
programming in C.

Regards,
Kevin