Comparison of integrated development environments

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Main article: Integrated development environment

The following tables list software packages that are nominal IDEs; standalone tools such as source code editors and GUI builders are not included.

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[edit] C/C++

Main articles: C (programming language) and C++
IDE License Windows Linux Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Toolchain Profiler Code Coverage Autocomplete Static code analysis GUI Based Design Class browser Latest stable release
Anjuta GPL No Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Yes December 2008
C++ Builder Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes August 2008
Code::Blocks GPL Yes Yes Mac OS X Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Yes [1] Yes February 2008
CodeLite GPL Yes Yes Mac OS X Yes No Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown February 2009
Dev-C++ GPL Yes No[2] Yes No Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Unknown February 2005
Eclipse CDT EPL Yes Yes JVM Yes Yes[3] No Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown No Yes February 2009
Geany GPL Yes Yes No No No Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown February 2009
GNAT Programming Studio GPL Yes Yes Solaris Yes Unknown Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Yes June 2008
KDevelop GPL No[4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Yes December 2008
MonoDevelop GPL Yes Yes Mac OS X No [5] Yes No Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown November 2008
NetBeans C/C++ pack CDDL Yes Yes JVM Yes No No[6] Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown No Yes November 2008
PellesC Freeware Yes No Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown June 2008
Sun Studio Freeware No Yes Solaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes November 2008
Rational Software Architect Proprietary Yes Yes JVM Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Turbo C++ Explorer Freeware Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes September 2006
Turbo C++ Professional Proprietary Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes September 2006
Microsoft Visual Studio Proprietary Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes August 2008
Microsoft Visual Studio Express Freeware Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes August 2008
wxDev-C++ GPL Yes No Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Unknown March 2007
Xcode Freeware No No Mac OS X Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes* Yes Yes Yes November 2008
IDE License Windows Linux Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Toolchain Profiler Code Coverage Autocomplete Static code analysis GUI Based Design Class browser Latest stable release
  • = XCode's Auto Complete feature is not equivalent to most other Integrated Development Environments. The XCode auto complete feature only shows hints of functions names while typing (much like Microsoft Word), instead of showing a complete listing of functions and variables bound to the scope of the object being typed.

[edit] C#

Main article: C Sharp (programming language)
Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft November 2007 Windows Proprietary
MonoDevelop Novell and the Mono community November 2007 Cross-platform GPL
SharpDevelop ICSharpCode Team August 2007 Windows LGPL

[edit] Fortran

Main article: Fortran
Developer Latest stable release Platform License
GNAT Programming Studio AdaCore 4.0 / September 2006 Linux, Windows, Solaris GPL
KDevelop KDevelop Team 3.5.4  (2008-12-18) Linux GPL
Photran University of Illinois, Los Alamos National Laboratory 4.0 beta 3/ November 2007 Linux, Windows, Mac OS X EPL

[edit] Java

Main article: Java (programming language)
IDE License JVM Platforms GUI builder
BEA Workshop for WebLogic Proprietary Yes Yes
BlueJ GPL2+GNU linking exception Yes Windows, Linux No
DrJava Permissive Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris No
Eclipse JDT EPL Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris No
Geany GPL No Windows, Linux No
Greenfoot GPL Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris No
IntelliJ IDEA Proprietary Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Yes
JBuilder Proprietary Yes Linux, Solaris, Windows Yes
JCreator Proprietary No Windows No
JDeveloper Proprietary OTN JDeveloper License (freeware) Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, generic JVM Yes
jGRASP Proprietary (freeware) Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux No
KDevelop GPL No Linux Unknown
Monodevelop GPL No Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Yes
MyEclipse Proprietary Yes Yes
NetBeans CDDL, GPL2 Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris Yes
Rational Application Developer Proprietary Yes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX Yes
Servoy Proprietary Unknown Unknown
Xcode Proprietary (freeware) No Mac OS X No

[edit] JavaScript

Main article: JavaScript
Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Aptana Studio Aptana, Inc. October 2007 Cross-platform GPL, Aptana Public License
IntelliJ IDEA JetBrains November 2008 Windows, Mac OS, Linux Proprietary
NetBeans Sun Microsystems November 2008[7] Cross-platform CDDL, GPL2
Oracle JDeveloper Oracle Corporation October 2008 Windows, Mac OS, Linux proprietary [2] - free
Servoy Servoy Developer Team July 2007 Cross-platform Copyright, Servoy License

[edit] Pascal, Object Pascal

Main articles: Pascal Programming Language and Object Pascal
Developer Latest stable release Windows Linux Mac OS X Mobiles Debugger GUI builder License
Delphi Embarcadero Technologies 2007 Yes No No No Yes Yes Proprietary
Dev-Pascal Bloodshed Software 1.9.2 / July 20, 2002 Yes No No No Yes No GPL
Free Pascal IDE Volunteers 2.2.2 / August 11th, 2008 Yes Yes Yes No Yes No GPL
KDevelop 3.5.3 No Yes No No No No GPL
Lazarus Volunteers 0.9.26.2 / March 23, 2009 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes modified LGPL
MIDletPascal Mobile Experts Group 2.02 / January 14, 2006 No No No Yes No Proprietary
PocketStudio winsoft 3.0 No No No Yes Yes Yes Proprietary
Morfik Morfik Technology Pty Ltd. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Proprietary

[edit] Perl

Main article: Perl
Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Kdevelop KDevelop Team 3.5.3  (2008-08-26) Cross-platform GPL
Komodo ActiveState 4.1.1 / June, 2007 Cross-platform Proprietary
Padre Padre Team 0.30 / March, 2009 Cross-platform Perl

[edit] PHP

Main article: PHP
Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Aptana Studio with PHP plugin Aptana, Inc. March 2009, 1.2.4 Cross-platform GPL, Aptana Public License
Delphi for PHP CodeGear 1.0 / February 20, 2007 Windows Proprietary
Eclipse PDT Eclipse Foundation / Zend 2.0 / December 29, 2008 Cross-platform EPL
Geany Team 0.16 Independent (w/ GTK2 support) GPL
HTML-Kit www.chami.com 292 Windows (all) free
KDevelop KDevelop Team 3.5.4  (2008-12-18) Linux GPL
Komodo ActiveState 4.4.1 Cross-platform Proprietary
NetBeans www.netbeans.org 6.5 / November 2008 Cross-platform on Netbeans CDDL
PHPEclipse www.phpeclipse.net 1.2.1 / November 2008 Cross-platform on Eclipse CPL
PHPEdit WaterProof SARL 2.6.1 / September 9, 2006 Windows Proprietary
Quanta Plus KDE Web Dev Team 3.5.8 / October 16, 2007 Linux GPL
Zend Studio Zend 6.1 / September 15, 2008 Cross-platform Proprietary

[edit] Python

Main article: Python (programming language)
Developer Latest stable release Platform Toolkit License
Boa Constructor Team 0.6.1 Independent wxPython GPL
PIDA Team 0.5.1 Cross-platform pyGtk GPL
Eric Python IDE Detlev Offenbach 4.1.2 Independent Qt GPL
Geany Team 0.16 Independent GTK2 GPL
IDLE Guido van Rossum et al. 2.6.1 / December 6, 2008 Independent Tkinter Open source / public domain
Komodo ActiveState 4.4 / June 24, 2008 Cross-platform Mozilla platform IDE:Proprietary; Edit: MPL/GPL/LGPL
NetBeans IDE Team 6.5 Independent nbPython GPL
PyDev fabioz 1.3.20 Cross-platform MIT License
Stani's Python Editor Stani 0.8.4c / February 14, 2008 Independent wxPython GPL
Wing IDE Archaeopteryx Software Inc. 3.1.8 / March 23, 2009 Cross-platform pyGtk Proprietary; Student edition:Freeware

[edit] Ruby

Main article: Ruby (programming language)
Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Aptana Studio with RadRails plugin Aptana, Inc. November 2007, beta Cross-platform GPL, Aptana Public License
IntelliJ IDEA with Ruby Plugin 2.0 JetBrains 8.0 / November, 2008 Cross-platform Proprietary
Komodo ActiveState 4.1.1 / June, 2007 Cross-platform Proprietary
NetBeans Sun Microsystems 6.5 / November, 2008 Cross-platform CDDL

[edit] Smalltalk

Main article: Smalltalk (programming language)
IDE Developer License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder
Dolphin Smalltalk Object Arts Open Source Yes No No Yes Yes
Squeak squeak.org Open Source Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Using wxSmith plug-in (included in distribution, requires wxWidgets SDK)
  2. ^ A Linux version was in the works, but has been abandoned since mid-2002.
  3. ^ [1]Eclipse Qt Integration.
  4. ^ "KDevelop4 on Windows Screenshots". apaku (KDevelop developer). June 2008. http://apaku.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/kdevelop4-on-windows-screenshots-finally/. Retrieved on 2008-06-28. 
  5. ^ MonoDevelop 2.0 Alfa 2 now includes a debugger. A final version is expected on March 2009.
  6. ^ "C/C++ Support Quick Start Tutorial". Sun Microsystems. October 2007. http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/cnd/quick-start.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-09. 
  7. ^ "Java Web Applications". Sun Microsystems. October 2007. http://www.netbeans.org/features/web/web-app.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-09. 
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