Builder

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Builder in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own gnome-builder package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Builder should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Compilers and interpreters run on the device's own ARM64 processor, while containers and virtual machines, which need a kernel of their own, cannot run. More about development tools in Breadstick.

About Builder

From the project's description

Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

You can rely on predictable releases of Builder with each new release of GNOME every six months.

Features:

  • Built in syntax highlighting for many languages
  • Side-by-side code editors
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Code overview mini-map
  • Integration with Git
  • Integration with Autotools, Cargo, CMake, Gradle, Meson, Maven, Make, PHPize, and Waf
  • Clang based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnostics
  • Python based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnostics
  • Vala based auto-completion and diagnostics
  • Auto indentation support for C, Python, Vala, and XML
  • HTML, Markdown, and reStructuredText, and Sphinx live preview
  • Optional Vim, Emacs, and SublimeText style editing
  • An integrated software profiler for native applications
  • An integrated debugger for native applications
  • Support for building with jhbuild and flatpak runtimes
  • Support for viewing TODOs found within your code base
  • Fast fuzzy text search across files and symbols

From the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's gnome-builder package, under CC0-1.0.

Developer
Christian Hergert
Keywords
Build, Develop
Menu categories
IDE, Development

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