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Corporate

Posted Sep 11, 2009 6:08 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Corporate by ncm
Parent article: Developing applications "Quickly"

I could see that, if it matures quite a bit.

The thing that struck me in the past about Gnome is how people complained
that there was no alternative to things like Visual Studio. (we now have
Eclipse, obviously)

But if you want a IDE I always saw as the entire Gnome/Linux desktop as a
IDE. You have nice integration with the command line, with a wealth of
powerful tools and easy to use scripting languages. There are GUI builders
and source code control and top-notch editors and everything you'd ever need.
But it was never presented as a entire product.

Maybe something like this is what was needed to make it all cohesive.

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Corporate

Posted Sep 14, 2009 5:38 UTC (Mon) by DDevine (subscriber, #60717) [Link]

You are definitely right about the whole desktop being an IDE.
However I would like to add that there is actual IDEs (in the Windows sense) available such as the excellent KDevelop, Anjuta, Eclipse and a handful of others. Its annoying that so many people do not bother to actually look at alternatives. Do they really expect Microsoft Word to be installed in the Linux desktop by default? It's like expecting your kitchen microwave to browse the internet.

Going out further, the CLI is also a great IDE and if you set it up well and learn tricks it can absolutely blitz any graphical setup in terms of productivity, but this is a setup that should be approached willingly and not kicking and screaming.