IDE

[V00D00]

I am very new to the world of programming and before I devote a serious amount of time in development I wanted to find out from you nice people what IDE you prefer and why or if you prefer no IDE at all.

I will be developing applications that will run on either KDE or Gnome. In the end I think the decision as to which windows manager will be made depending on which IDE is chosen.

Also I do not see a lot of information available about programming gui interfaces from scratch without the use of an IDE.

Thank you very much for your time and your input.


Thank you very much for your time and your input.

 

[xwb]

I've been out of the Unix loop for about 3 years so my information may not be up to date.

You could use FLTK which is independent of window managers. It is also portable across operating systems. There is also QT and WxWindows which are also independent or JAPI if you want a Java based one.

Some people love IDEs (especially those from an MS background). I don't mind IDEs as long as they don't try to be clever like indenting code when you don't want it to and not allowing you to insert routines which it thinks are syntactically wrong (like M$ C# Gnnnnnn!).

XEmacs is a good IDE - you can edit and build code with it. As for GUI IDEs, you have X Designer which is more CDE/Motif based.

 

[jstreich]

Emacs21 (I like it better than XEmacs, though both are XWindows programs_ or vi, with syntax highlighting, is all I use for C/C++/shell scripting. I use eclipse a little bit for JAVA, and it can be used to code C/C++ (though I've never done C/C++ with it).

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[SearchMe]

Kdevelop (google it) has a lot of supporters and is supposed to be quite good. I'm of the old school, I started developing via punched cards, so I didn't grow up with IDEs and don't use them too often. Make, vi and gdb seem to get me by just fine.

Jim.