ProgrammingApplication

ProgrammingApplication - Debian Wiki

This portal talks about development and programming tools. Technical words can be used but explained.

Editors

For instructions about installing packages like these, see HowToInstallPackages:


	vim - Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
	neovim - ?NeoVim is the fork of Vim with additional features.
	emacs - GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest recommended Emacs release.
	ne - An easy to use terminal based text editor
	jed - Emacs like text editor, uses S-Lang for the scripting.
	nano - small, friendly text editor inspired by Pico
	kate - The KDE Advanced Text Editor
	gedit - The default Gnome text editor
	geany - a GTK+ / Scintilla based programming editor (it calls itself a lightweight IDE)
	hx - A Post modern full featured text editor with ready highlight syntax and lang server support for more than 60 languages.

For instructions about installing packages like these, see HowToInstallPackages:


	gnome-builder - GTK and GNOME Development
	eclipse - Extensible Tool Platform and IDE for Java and many other languages, including C++, Python, etc. (Available as a Debian package in Stretch, but not in current versions of Debian, in which eclipse-debian-helper can be used, or the software can be manually installed - see below.)
	gambas2 - based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic(tm) (but it is NOT a clone!)
	KDEvelop - IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP
	?MonoDevelop - C / C++ / C# / Boo / ASP.NET/ VB.NET / Java programming
	?NetBeans - IDE for Java, PHP, C/C++ Development and More (Available as a Debian package in Stretch, but not in current versions of Debian, in which the software can be manually installed - see below.)
	projectcenter.app - IDE for GNUstep Development using Objective-C
	?QtCreator - C++ / Qt Window designer.
	?CodeLite - IDE for development using C, C++, PHP, Node.js

The following are available as downloads from their creators, and are possible to use on Debian:

Netbeans - IDE for Java, PHP and more. Netbeans installation instructions can be found here: Netbeans
Eclipse - Extensible Tool Platform and IDE for Java and many other languages, including C++, Java, Python, etc. Eclipse installation instructions can be found here: Eclipse
Visual Studio Code (from Microsoft) - An editor and lightweight IDE for many programming languages. VS Code installation instructions can be found here VisualStudioCode. VS Code can also be downloaded from https://code.visualstudio.com/
IntelliJ IDEA, Pycharm, Web Storm, Ruby Mine, and a whole family of similar IDEs from Jetbrains, for almost every popular programming language, can be easily installed on Debian: see the Debian Wiki JetBrains Page for more information.

FakeRoot - Provides virtual root privileges for file manipulation within a fake root environment.
Make - Automatically recompiles parts of a package that need recompilation
AutoConf - Tool to create a configure script from the configure.ac file
AutoMake - Automatically generates build information files
Distcc - tool to compile on many boxes at once
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) tester (GUI) (used to be a KDE one)

Some more:

meson - SCons-like build system that uses Python as a front-end language and Ninja as a building backend
cmake - A cross-platform open-source make system

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