Do you use GhostBSD for programming or software development?

vimanuelt

Do you use GhostBSD for programming or software development? If so, which languages and tools?

ericbsd

I use PyCharm, Clion, and Vim for C and Python, as well as ports.

vimanuelt

I primarily use vi for writing programs in Go, Python, and several other languages. The last integrated development environment I truly liked was Turbo Pascal before FreeBSD existed. I used Emacs a long time ago, but now I prefer simple tools that exist on most Unix-like systems by default.

When I think about code, I depend greatly on my imagination. For me, using an integrated development environment is similar to watching a music video. Everything is already organized and presented in front of you. Using vi is more like listening to music before music videos existed. I can imagine the code in my mind. That experience is enjoyable and helps me focus. :-)

brianthehughes

I use pycharm-ce, vscode, and vi mostly for shell scripting/hacking

I'm a big fan of whiteboards for modeling ideas and use tools like Workflowy or simple bulleted/nested lists for planning.

There's definitely something painful about having the tools get in the way of the ideas - where one has to spend more time setting up and configuring a tool or learning how to use the tool to start working on the project/idea.

glen-the-grey

I intend to...although its early days for me just now...

I'm coming back to programming after some time away and have long been a Debian or RHEL user for development work and only ever used BSD for personal computing (OpenBSD/NetBSD) but after installing GhostBSD on my brother's laptop I was so impressed I've decided to create my very own GhostBSD laptop and see if I can use it for my development work (for anyone who is interested it seems to work excellently on the AMD Ryzen ThinkBooks and HP laptops...not tested others...but it definitely seems to be working better on the Ryzen ones than the Intel ones I have available)

But to answer the original question I will be doing C programming for embedded development on microcontrollers. First, though, I am going to try and build Code::Blocks from source because that is my favourite IDE.

As for editors I'll typically just use whatever is available and have no preference, usually Nano or Vim on the command line and Pluma/Mousepad/Gedit depending on the desktop environment I'm currently in. I used to use GNU/Emacs professionally but haven't used it much in a few years...

meurglys

I just started learning Python this week. Been using Pluma, and Geany, but will probably just use a command line editor like ee or micro from here on out.

Was considering Pycharm, but with all that built in A.I. it feels like I would be spoon fed the code, and I'd much rather learn from my own mistakes, through trial and error. Grins

tsesani

I do use GhostBSD for my own personal development.
Mostly objecticon, classic icon and Netrexx.
Flowterm from objecticon is a extremely low resource graphical file tool.
No one does just plain X11 programming as the Icon family of languages.
NetRexx makes command line Java programs drop dead simple.
This week, I processed dates in a 15 million line GEDCOM file.

Read this post about really testing GhostBSD.
https://gramps.discourse.group/t/very-large-gedcom-import-really-happy/8544

From my work , 118235 Dates and 147844 Places need to be Standardized on Family Search in that tree.
Probably take me the rest of my life.

Hargbratch

I've been poking at Java.
Currently procrastinating on getting Intellij IDEA to display crisply, looks pretty bad out of the box on my machine.

Edit: Then again it says "Native file watcher is not supported on this platform", so perhaps I'll shop around awhile.

Later Edit: Eclipse works nice.