Builder is an Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It’s a tool to help you write and contribute to GNOME-based applications.
The software combines integrated support for GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that developers will appreciate including syntax highlighting and snippets.
The Builder project started out of a class teaching people to program for the GNOME platform.
Key Features
- Built in syntax highlighting for many programming 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, reStructuredText, and Sphinx live preview.
- Optional Vim, Emacs, and SublimeText style editing.
- Integrated software profiler for native applications.
- Integrated debugger for native applications.
- Support for building with jhbuild and flatpak runtimes.
- Support for viewing TODOs within a code-base.
- Fast fuzzy text search across files and symbols.
Website: wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder
Support: Documentation
Developer: Christian Hergert, et al.
License: GNU General Public Licence v3.0
Builder is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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