Suggestion for java/c++ editor with compile, run and debug capabilities.

[Josh Roden]

Hi
I installed Geany.
It works both with Java and C++.
Using Geany with GDB seems problematic but I figure that it's a good bet
for 1st year students
to get started.
Thank you all for your suggestions!


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:00 PM Evgeniy Ginzburg <nad.oby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgot the JetBrains mentioned here
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:55 PM Evgeniy Ginzburg <nad.oby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Josh.
>> I'll try to answer the question that you not really asked.
>>
>> The problem with lightweight editors (best ones are variants of Vim or
>> Emacs) that making them work "good" for Java coding is a very non-trivial
>> task.
>> Especially if you want any debugging, code navigation and/or snippets.
>> (Also if anybody can point me to a good configuration example for
>> Java/Scala in Vim or Emacs I'll be eternally grateful.)
>>
>> C/C++ is easier in this case.
>> Still, making ctags(or equivalent) and GDB to work under Vim or Emacs is
>> not the 5 minutes task.
>> And one will need to integrate some kind of build system make, cmake,
>> etc...
>> Whoever is going to do this will need to know exactly what he wants, and
>> this is not expected from the first year student.
>>
>> And also I assume that you'd prefer a solution that "Just works (TM)".
>>
>> Then your choices are limited to full-fledged IDEs, and those are not in
>> any way lightweight.
>> From my point of view, Netbeans is just a little bit lighter than Eclipse
>> on resources, but this is just a matter of personal taste.
>>
>> Best regards Evgeniy.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:53 AM Josh Roden <joshroden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> Happy Purim!
>>> We're looking for a Linux editor for first year CS students
>>> that is light on resources.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Josh
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> So long, and thanks for all the fish.
>>
>
>
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