If Eclipse, KDevelop, and Code Crusader don??™t appeal to you, a quick
search at Freshmeat (use http://freshmeat.net/browse/65/ to get right to the IDE category)
or SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=65
takes you straight to the IDE category) should turn up many options from which to choose. As of
this writing, the Freshmeat IDE category has 181 entries and the SourceForge IDE category has
748 entries; there??™s something available for everyone. This is Linux, after all, so you are free to
choose the IDE that appeals to you the most. As you??™ll learn in the next subsection, however, not
everyone wants (or needs) a GUI IDE.
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The Command-Line Programming Environment
The Linux command-line programming environment or CLI (command-line interface) stands in
sharp contrast to the GUI IDEs described in the previous section. It often shocks developers who
have only a Windows development background and who aren??™t accustomed to using a CLI.
To be fair, it must be intimidating to find yourself in front of a command prompt without anything
to double-click to start and not the faintest clue how to proceed. That said, while a CLI might seem
Spartan to the newcomer, programming at the command line is surprisingly powerful and allows
you to mix and match best-of-breed tools in a way that most IDEs cannot begin to approach.
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