Questions tagged [ide]
IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are computer programs that facilitate efficient software development by providing features beyond those of a simple text editor.
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Considering IDE and text editor features when choosing a coding style
Recently, I had a debate with one of my friends on using type inference in C# (var keyword). His argument was that we should stick to using the explicit type names because "even with the ...
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What was the first company to make a drag-and-drop GUI designer like Visual Basic?
When Visual Basic came out, it was revolutionary for its drag-and-drop GUI designer, allowing users to quickly create GUI programs. This video shows Bill Gates introducing it in 1991. Did drag-and-...
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Effective way to develop software on two machines (PC and Laptop) [duplicate]
When writing code on a desktop pc as well as on a laptop or other computer, is there a general recommended strategy for being able to keep the same environments set up on both machines? I use Git ...
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Are there any general purpose visual programming "languages"? [closed]
Lately I've been surveying the programming language landscape and one of the languages I looked at was Pharo, a modern Smalltalk. Programming using a living system that runs in a virtual machine seems ...
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How to provide clang-format config for IDE and build system of multiple projects?
We have several C++ projects that use clang-format and clang-tidy and other similar tools. Currently the config files for these tools are stored in each project's Git repository. Now I'm trying to put ...
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How does code work without getting compiled or interpreted?
I recently started researching about coding, but there are a few things that made me confused. I chose Visual Studio Code to start coding in C and Python (I was using IDLE for Python before), but ...
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Replacement for Progress/OpenEdge environment [closed]
I've recently joined a firm, where we are working with Progress 4GL from OpenEdge, release 11.6. As I have quite some experience in other programming environment, I'm really surprised by the extremely ...
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When was native debugging first used
I believe this is still on topic. This question comes from a mixture of curiosity and exasperation. A colleague refuses to use native debugging; whether in a stand-alone debugging tool or in an ...
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Is relying on an IDE for code readability acceptable
During my years developing software I have most of the times tried to improve the readability of my code. As one example, I often try not to use boolean flag parameters of methods and I try to ...
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Working of linters in an IDE [closed]
I'm not sure if this question belongs to Stack Overflow or somewhere else. Sorry if it doesn't belong here. My question is, in an IDE, does its linter, check the whole source code every time (...
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Packages with only __init__.py - Possible issues?
Considering a Python Project structure such as the following, where there are "empty" packages with __init__ files simply pulling code from the lib folder: . ├── foo │ ├── fred │ │ └── __init__....
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Save settings per developer in Git
Persistence is an essential requirement for preferences. Developer's preferences are saved in .idea/ folder. It is recommended to add .idea/ to .gitignore to avoid merge conflicts. But then settings ...
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How can I make sure my PHP code is compatible with a newer version
I have a bunch of PHP 5.6 code that I would like to get up to 7.2. My biggest concern was the change that causes an error when you call a function without enough parameters. Previously, this was a ...
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Do Scala worksheet (or REPL logs) belong to the SCM?
The Eclipse Scala IDE (and Intellij Idea, too) has, together with a standard REPL CLI, an artifact named Worksheet, that works like a persistent REPL log: the whole file is compiled and executed at ...
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When writing a Qt application is good practice to ALWAYS prefer Qt function implementations, data types, and classes when they are available?
I'm just starting out with Qt and I really want to try and keep my application as separated from Qt as possible in case I decide to use a different toolset later, but at the same time don't want to ...
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