IDE or Integrated Development Environment provides a sophisticated development environment with lot of features and automation of various boring tasks (although I’m not sure about that – IDE itself is very boring). Although, in most of the cases a powerful text editor like Vim or Emacs would be better option but sometimes it’s good to have IDE specially if you’re dealing with very complicated stuffs. e.g Android Development without Eclipse would be much painful.
So, here is the list of some popular and powerful IDE that may be useful for you. Some of them are heavy while some are lightweight IDE (and provides all features without compromising with the speed and simplicity).
IDEs for Java/Android Programmers
Eclipse
Eclipse is a great IDE, with a lot of features and provides a versatile platform. So if you’re a Java programmer or want to develop native applications for Android (using Java, because there are other ways to develop applications for Android Platform) – Eclipse is the best option.
Setting up Eclipse on Ubuntu 12.04
Netbeans
Netbeans is another great IDE with lot of features, and it’s a good IDE for Java/C/C++/PHP developers. It supports a variety of languages and a lot of free plugins are available to extend the default features. It’s fast, simple and good for beginner Java programmers, learning curve is not so steep like Eclipse.
Install Netbeans (version 7)
sudo apt-get install netbeans
IDEs for C/C++ programmers
Although, Eclipse is also good fr C/C++ but Kdevelop is much better for C/C++. It’s lightweight (as compared to Eclipse), fast and it does provide a lot of cool features for C/C++ developers. it has wide variety of powerful tools and it’s highly customizable.
Install KDevelop IDE in Ubuntu 12.04
sudo apt-get install kdevelop
Netbeans and Eclipse, is also good for C/C++, you just need to install the required plugins (only in eclipse).
IDEs for Web Developers
If you are a web developer then you might consider using Geany – a light weight IDE that just works.
Install Geany
sudo apt-get install geany
For HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT
Eclipse also has plugins for web programming, but if you want a full featured dedicated IDE for HTML/CSS/JS then try Bluefish Editor.
Install Bluefish Editor
sudo apt-get install bluefish
For PHP
Use Kdevelop or Netbeans, they good support for PHP. In KDevelop, if you want to use PHP then install the php plugin –
sudo apt-get install kdevelop-php
For Ruby on Rails
Try Aptana Studio – it is also available as a plugin for Eclipse – so if you’ve already installed eclipse then go for that (for installation instruction, checkout the above link for setting up eclipse).
For Python –
IDLE – is a good IDE for python developers.
Install IDLE using Python 2.7
sudo apt-get install idle-python2.7
If you want to use Python 3.2 then
sudo apt-get install idle-python3.2
Nice writeup. I’ve been considering running Ubuntu on a netbook and thought it would be fun to do some of my web development there. This’ll lead me in just the right direction.
I do mostly PHP/HTML/CSS/WordPress, so it looks like NetBeans is the right choice for me.
I use redcar for ruby on rails
thanks for this i’ve installed all of them hehe!
Wow, I was using Gedit which is okay but good mention about kdevelop. Never used it but it is pretty slick and (seems) light for PHP development without having to install something bloated like eclipse or netbeans. Thanks!!!
thanks a lot , this really helpfull,nice!!!