What is the Ultimate Linux Development Environment?

What is the Ultimate Linux Development Environment? 643

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @07:55PM from the do-our-tools-need-improvement dept.

nachmore asks: "I've been programming on Linux for a while now, always content to use vi for my editing and any debugger tools out there (gdb for C/C++, and so forth). As part of my SoC project I was working on Thunderbird (my first huge project on Linux) and I found that , although shell-based tools can do the job, they lack in easy project management, ease of debugging and other development features. I've only ever programmed with a GUI on Windows — and I have to admit that I find Dev Studio to be one of the few programs that Microsoft seems to have gotten (nearly) right. I've played around with Eclipse but find it's C/C++ support still lacking. So what GUIs would you recommend for Linux? I would like something with debugging (single step, step through, step-to-end, etc) support, CVS access and of course, support for large projects (e.g. Mozilla) and especially good support for C/C++. Is there anything really good out there, or is vi the way to go?"

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Who has done it right? (Score:2, Funny)

by RobertKozak ( 613503 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:08PM (#16012041) Homepage

I've only ever programmed with a GUI on Windows -- and I have to admit that I find Dev Studio to be one of the few programs that Microsoft seems to have gotten (nearly) right.

I wonder. Which Dev tool gets it right?

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:3, Funny)

by bunions ( 970377 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:08PM (#16012042)

Zoroastrianism, duh.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:10PM (#16012048)

Christianity, oh and emacs is the best editor. ;)

Re:Its called emacs (Score:5, Funny)

by kfg ( 145172 ) * writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:11PM (#16012059)

emacs has all of these features that you are asking for:

But hang on to vi, because you'll still need a decent text editor.

KFG

I would say the best enviroment would be (Score:2, Funny)

by iminplaya ( 723125 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:20PM (#16012112) Journal

somewhere on a nice beach on the west coast of Mexico and tall (or short) black haired, big round eyed girls bring you a constant supply of Negra Modelo and guacamole with habanero chilis...and of course using a Mac. Some Oaxacan sinsemillan would be a nice touch.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:5, Funny)

by WilliamSChips ( 793741 ) writes: <`moc.liamg' `ta' `ytinifni.lluf'> on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:20PM (#16012114) Journal

Origin. Hallowed are the Ori.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:24PM (#16012136)

The Christianity that gets you unjustly persecuted by everyone on the planet; that's when you know you have the right one.

Oh, you must be referring to the Judaism branch.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:3, Funny)

by c++ ( 25427 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:30PM (#16012163)

Hollowed are their followers' brains...

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:1, Funny)

by secolactico ( 519805 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @08:56PM (#16012288) Journal

...which religion is best.

Omnianism

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:2, Funny)

by The Snowman ( 116231 ) * writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @09:00PM (#16012310)

...which religion is best.

Scientology.

Oh wait, you said religion, not cult.

Re:vim (Score:4, Funny)

by Coryoth ( 254751 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @09:03PM (#16012326) Homepage Journal

There's nothing it can't do, you just haven't learned it yet.

Can it make me a cup of coffee [debian.org]?

text mode (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @09:11PM (#16012362)

bash + nano + fbcon + gcc + gdb + i-will-kill-anyone-who-thinks-otherwise-with-my-ow n-bare-hands

Regarding slashdot, everyone should think. (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @09:32PM (#16012458)

"The best environment in Linux - as with on any platform - is a text editor and a solid mind that thinks the problems through before typing. IDEs inhibit that thought process."

Apparently posting to slashdot has a similiar effect.

Question Answered (Score:5, Funny)

by Eideewt ( 603267 ) writes: on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @10:52PM (#16012828)

Interesting... when I first looked at the comments there were a few for vi and none for Emacs. Now there are many more Emacs votes.

So I guess we've finally found out which editor is faster.

*Disclaimer: I like Emacs, really. It's taking up 40% of my screen right now.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @12:03AM (#16013163)

What is the difference between a religion and a cult?

Tom Cruise.

it could work (Score:3, Funny)

by r00t ( 33219 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @12:29AM (#16013283) Journal

If you're so die-hard that the built-in vi isn't real enough for you, why not?

Emacs can open a window for shell commands or to do a compile. Running vi is certainly something you could do. You could even bind it to a key.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:3, Funny)

by phulegart ( 997083 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @01:49AM (#16013610)

What's the difference?

Religious nuts use Windows. They follow the masses without understanding, but still need an interface.

Cultist nuts use Linux. They need to be outside the mainstream, but still need an interface.

Agnostics either read a book, or dev their own OS. They don't need an interface, but enjoy keeping in contact with the first two groups.

Athiests don't believe interfaces exist.

Re:Question Answered (Score:2, Funny)

by yukonbob ( 410399 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @02:15AM (#16013698)

Interesting... when I first looked at the comments there were a few for vi and none for Emacs. Now there are many more Emacs votes. So I guess we've finally found out which editor is faster.

...or which editor has people busy getting work done, and not posting to slashdot :P

-yb

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:3, Funny)

by Pogue Mahone ( 265053 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @02:19AM (#16013710) Homepage

Hallowed are the Ori.
I prefer the gin part myself. Preferably with tonic, ice and a slice.

Re:found your problem (Score:1, Funny)

by jne_oioioi ( 890078 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @02:39AM (#16013754)

Choose linux. Choose Gnome. Choose the virtual desktops. Set focus-follows-mouse.Choose xterm, white on black, default font. Choose 80 COLUMNS and 70 LINES. Choose LCD with a fscking good resolution, a faststarting editor and choose to learn shell. Choose finding,grepping,locate and make.

Choose your future.

Choose Linux.

Traitor! (Score:3, Funny)

by alienmole ( 15522 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @03:29AM (#16013889)

What happened to your previous declaration "as a Jaffa [slashdot.org]"? Couldn't resist the Ori-worshipper mod points, huh??

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:3, Funny)

by Peet42 ( 904274 ) writes: <Peet42@Net[ ]pe.net ['sca' in gap]> on Thursday August 31, 2006 @08:06AM (#16014705)

What is the difference between a religion and a cult?

Tom Cruise.

Yes. he is an annoying little cult.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:4, Funny)

by sammy baby ( 14909 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @10:01AM (#16015451) Journal

I misread that for a moment as "onanism" and got really, really, confused for a minute.

I mean, sure, a quick tug now and again, but outright worship? You'll go blind.

Re:You might as well ask... (Score:3, Funny)

by smartfart ( 215944 ) * writes: <joey AT joeykelly DOT net> on Thursday August 31, 2006 @11:19AM (#16016028) Homepage Journal

"The Christianity that gets you unjustly persecuted by everyone on the planet; that's when you know you have the right one."

And here I was thinking that no one believed in sacrifice anymore. Thanks, you made my day :-)

Re:SlickEdit (Score:2, Funny)

by CYDVicious ( 834329 ) writes: on Thursday August 31, 2006 @12:13PM (#16016512) Homepage

"(no, I don't illegally copy software)"

Oh great one, teach me your ways of copying software legally.

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Who has done it right? (Score:2, Funny)

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Re:Its called emacs (Score:5, Funny)

I would say the best enviroment would be (Score:2, Funny)

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text mode (Score:1, Funny)

Regarding slashdot, everyone should think. (Score:3, Funny)

Question Answered (Score:5, Funny)

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it could work (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:found your problem (Score:1, Funny)

Traitor! (Score:3, Funny)

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