Integrated Development Environments / RAD tools / GUI-builders on Linux

Integrated Development Environments / RAD tools / GUI-builders on Linux:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Devtools/ides.html

• General/Editors:
  1. Amy (HTML, C, C++, Java, SQL, LaTeX, Makefiles and many more languages)
  2. blIDE (incomplete; no downloads as of yet)
  3. IBM's Eclipse (an extensible IDE kit; Java, C/C++, plus other languages via plug-ins that are becoming increasingly available, such as Perl via the EPIC plug-in)
  4. Code Crusader (supports just about everything) with the Code Medic debugger
  5. Glimmer
  6. InfoDock
  7. SGI's Jessie (doesn't seem to exist any more)
  8. Emediat Solutions's RadBuilder
  9. RHIDE
  10. CYGNUS's Source Navigator with the Insight debugger
  11. SciTE
  12. Sublime Text
  13. Titano
  14. WideStudio
  15. wxStudio
• Ada:
  1. GNAT Programming System (GPS)
  2. TIA (for GNAT Ada 95)
• BASIC:
  1. TrueBASIC (Linux version to be released soon)
• C/C++:
  1. Amy
  2. Anjuta
  3. ICS's BX Pro (for Motif/C++)
  4. Code Forge's C-Forge
  5. Code Blue
  6. Code::Blocks for C++/wxWidgets
  7. Metrowerks's Code Warrior
  8. Bloodshed Software's Dev-C++ (for C/C++)
  9. DiaSCE
  10. IBM's Eclipse (an extensible IDE kit; Java, C/C++ in late beta, other plug-ins pending)
  11. gIDE
  12. Glade
  13. GNAT Programming System (GPS)
  14. CYGNUS's GNUPro
  15. FLTK & Fluid (for C++)
  16. IDEntify
  17. KDbg
  18. KDevelop
  19. KDE Studio
  20. Suite 3220 Software's Moonshine and Moonshine Professional
  21. OpenAmulet
  22. RHIDE
  23. QtEZ (for C++ w/Qt)
  24. Scintilla (for GTK+/C++)
  25. Wind River Systems / TakeFive Software's SNiFF+ and SNiFF Penguin
  26. CYGNUS's Source Navigator
  27. with the Insight debugger
  28. TogetherSoft's Together
  29. VisKProg
  30. MicroEdge's Visual SlickEdit
  31. Q Software Solutions's Wedit
  32. VDKBuilder
  33. VIDE (for C++ and Java)
  34. WideStudio
  35. wxBuilder
  36. wxDesigner
  37. wxStudio (for C++ and Python)
  38. Xwpe-alpha
• Objective-C:
  1. GNUStep's ProjectCenter
• ECMAScript / Javascript:
  1. TrollTech AS's Qt Scripter (for the Qt Script extension of ECMAScript)
  2. Nombas, Inc.'s ScriptEase (for ECMAScript)
• Eiffel:
  1. Interactive Software Engineering's EiffelBench
• Java:
  1. Amy
  2. AnyJ (for Java)
  3. VioSoft Arriba
  4. BlueJ
  5. Chicory
  6. Omnicore Software's CodeG
  7. IBM's Eclipse (an extensible IDE kit; Java, C/C++ in late beta, other plug-ins pending)
  8. Elixir (for Java, HTML, Scheme, TCL)
  9. FreeBuilder
  10. Ginipad
  11. IntelliJ's IDEA
  12. Jasmine
  13. Borland's JBuilder aka JavaBuilder
  14. JCreator LE or Pro
  15. BulletProof's JDesignerPro
  16. Jedi
  17. Jedit (for Java, when used with plug-ins)
  18. Jipe
  19. JJTop
  20. JOODA
  21. Allaire's Kawa
  22. ProSyst's mBedded Builder (for embedded Java)
  23. NetBeans Developer
  24. Data Representations's Simplicity and Simplicity Professional
  25. Wind River Systems / TakeFive Software's SNiFF+ and SNiFF Penguin
  26. CYGNUS's Source Navigator with the Insight debugger
  27. Sun One Studio 4 (formerly Forte)
  28. SwingSoft's SwingBuilder
  29. TogetherSoft's Together
  30. VIDE (for C++ and Java)
  31. IST's Visaj
  32. Compuware's OptimalJ
  33. IBM's VisualAge Java
  34. Visual Paradigm
  35. IBM's WebSphere Application Developer (for Java J2EE)
• Pascal:
  1. Alice Pascal
  2. Borland's "Kylix Open Edition" (for GPL-licensed projects only, using Object Pascal aka Delphi or C++ source code: Used to be available at http://www.borland.com/kylix/open/, but then was withdrawn and, even if you found a mirror, Borland cannot 'activate' copies any more: an object lesson in proprietary software's frequent trait of being here today, gone tomorrow
  3. Lazarus (for Object Pascal/Delphi)
  4. fpGUI (for Object Pascal/Delphi)
  5. RHIDE
  6. Pascaline (plug-in for the Eclipse IDE)
  7. MSEide+MSEgui
  8. Xwpe
  9. PENG (proprietary)
• Perl:
  1. ActiveState's Komodo Perl IDE / Komodo IDE (formerly just Komodo)
  2. Padre
  3. PerlComposer
  4. WideStudio
  5. wxPerl
• PHP:
  1. ActiveState's Komodo PHP IDE / Komodo IDE (formerly just Komodo)
  2. Nexidion Designer
  3. Xored Web Studio (works as an Eclipse plug-in)
  4. Zend IDE
  5. Maguma Workbench (proprietary)
  6. Bluefish (primarily an HTML editor)
  7. Quanta+ (primarily an HTML editor
  8. Screem (PHP, XML; primarily an HTML editor / site-development environment)
• Python:
  1. ActiveState's ActivePython Community Edition
  2. BlackAdder (for Python and Ruby)
  3. Boa-Constructor
  4. Cooledit
  5. Eric
  6. Guido van Rossum's IDLE
  7. Jext
  8. ActiveState's Komodo Python IDE / Komodo IDE (formerly just Komodo)
  9. Leo (Leonine Editor with Outlines) (based on PyQt)
  10. PythonWare's PythonWorks Pro
  11. SPE (Stani's Python Editor)
  12. ViPEr
  13. ViPYL
  14. WideStudio
  15. Archeopteryx Software's Wing IDE
  16. wxPython
  17. wxStudio (for C++ and Python)
  18. Digital Creations's Zope Studio
• QT:
  1. QtEZ (for C++ w/Qt)
  2. TrollTech AS's Qt Scripter (for the Qt Script extension of ECMAScript)
• Ruby:
  1. Arcadia (written in tcl/tk and Ruby)
  2. BlackAdder (for Python and Ruby)
  3. ActiveState's Komodo Ruby IDE / Komodo IDE
  4. WideStudio
• Scheme / Lisp:
  1. Elixir (for Java, HTML, Scheme, TCL)
  2. Jabberwocky (for Lisp)
• Smalltalk:
  1. Squeak (Smalltalk-80)
  2. VisualAge Smalltalk
  3. Cincom's VisualWorks Smalltalk
• SQL:
  1. Amy
• TCL/Tk:
  1. Elixir (for Java, HTML, Scheme, TCL)
  2. ActiveState's Komodo
  3. Quick-Tk
  4. Tcl Developer Studio (for Tcl/Tix)
  5. Visual Tcl
• wx (cross-platform/cross-language GUI library):
  1. Boa-Constructor
  2. wxBuilder
  3. wxDesigner
  4. wxPerl
  5. wxPython
• Other:
  1. EXOR International Inc.'s eVGS Development Suite (not ported yet)
  2. MetaCard Corp.'s MetaCard (for MetaTalk)
  3. National Instruments's LabView
  4. Omnis Studio (for the Omnis 4GL)
  5. Runtime Revolution Ltd.'s Revolution (for Transcript)

Warning: Some of the above are binary-only and x86-Linux-only.

To explain the context of this page: It came about really just as a small exercise in understated online rhetoric, the need for which long ago vanished.

That is, through the middle of the 1990s, you could not go onto online discussion media without encountering some dumbasses arguing that the Linux operating system was useless for developers and end-users alike, and one of the very most common talking points was the allegation that there were 'no IDEs for Linux'. This was a ritualised argument: The hapless Linux enthusiast typically fell straight into the intended trap and said 'Well, actually, you're far better off using emacs and gdb as your development environment [blah blah].' The critic then triumphantly pronounced his/her point conceded and posted yet another 50-line screed about how $SOMEONES_FAVOURITE_PROPRIETARY_OS was clearly better and Linux would be useless for decades.

These ritualised disputations annoyed me, because they cluttered up otherwise useful online media such as the non-advocacy parts of the comp.os.linux.* Usenet newsgroups. So, I found myself involuntarily thinking about the issue, and suddenly one day thought: 'Wait. What IDEs are there actually for developers on Linux?'

I spent a couple of hours researching the problem, came up with about 50 of them, and inserted them as a new item into my personal 'rants' pages. Then, the next five times I saw one of the usual suspects asking rhetorically 'Oh yeah? What IDEs are there on Linux?' I just posted the URL with the comment 'Here y'are.'

Oddly enough, it took only about five postings of that URL to Usenet and other places, and the entire debate point disappeared completely off the Internet. People simply stopped making the allegation. So, basically, my rants/FAQ item did its job.

Much later, I moved that 'rants' item to its own separate page and kept adding new items to it — but the underlying original reason for the page's existence no longer exists.

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