Which IDE is recommended?

[tatsudoshi]

Ubuntu: ?

Windows: ?

Others: ?

Please fill these out with notes good to know for new devs. I intend to add this to the wiki..

[torne]

I doubt many people (or any people?) use an IDE to work on Rockbox.

[tatsudoshi]

Hm ok, I have always used an IDE, from day one, this is just the way I was taught.
So what do people use? Notepad? How to accommodate for typos, syntax highlighting and so forth?

[bluebrother]

Use a good text editor. Most advanced editors have helpful features for programming. It is not really possible to recommend a special since it has to fit your needs -- and those vary between people. I guess the most widely used editors are vim and emacs. Notepad is ... well, nothing I would call an editor.

[tatsudoshi]

So basically any text editor with syntax recognition will do..

Thank you

[paulheu]

NotePad ++ .. IF you must stay in a windows enviroment IMO the easiest solution. And free

[deute]

is it normal for c programers not to use ide's ?

[torne]

It's normal for many experienced programmers not to use IDEs, regardless of language. It's also fairly common for experienced programmers to use an IDE, regardless of language.

I use an IDE for Java (Eclipse), but not really for any other language.

[bluebrother]

is it normal for c programers not to use ide's ?

What's normal? Or is the question rather if it's *common* to not use an IDE?

Either way, what torne said: it depends. I've seen both, and I'm using both depending on what I'm doing (and that's not related to the language -- in some cases I use an IDE for C++ code, in others I don't. Sometimes I use both even when working on the same code). The point is that the tool needs to fit your needs for the task, and an IDE doesn't fit for every task

[Predelnik]

I've just put all rockbox code to visual studio and using their IntelliSense feature, it really helps to understand project structure to some point, but other than that IDE is fairly unusable i guess.

[whiskers75]

cloud9 IDE (c9.io), online and free.