Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Thomas Preud'homme wrote:

Le jeudi 31 juillet 2008, Steve Witt a écrit :
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Star Liu wrote:
When I develop in windows, I use visual studio.net 2008 as my IDE,
if I want to develop in Debian, what's the best the IDE for C
programming?
thanks!

emacs

The troll begins

Excuse me while I run off to pop some popcorn...








Seriously, if you like an big IDE then I'd recommend eclipse. I've been forced to use it on a project for the last year and I really dislike it. It is too heavyweight and gets in my way. To me, a decent editor that does syntax high-lighting (vim or emacs and others are very capable in this regard), a couple of xterms, make and gdb (or ddd), are all the IDE one needs. Probably the older people (of which I am becoming) will say this, and the younger people, who grew up with IDEs will be horrified. I see this a lot where I work. There is a longer learning curve I think with the method I recommend, but I also think that knowledge gained is well worth the effort.

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