Comparison of integrated development environments

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Main article: Integrated development environment

The following tables list notable software packages that are nominal IDEs; standalone tools such as source code editors and GUI builders are not included.

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[edit] ActionScript

Main article: ActionScript
IDE License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Profiler Static code analysis MXML
FDT Proprietary Yes Yes (unstable) Yes JVM Yes No Yes Yes Yes
FlashDevelop MIT License Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Flash Builder Proprietary Yes No Yes JVM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Proprietary Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes No No Yes Yes
Realaxy ActionScript Editor Proprietary Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes No No Yes Yes

[edit] Ada

Main article: Ada (programming language)
IDE License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Toolchain Profiler Code coverage Autocomplete Static code analysis GUI-based design Class browser Latest stable release
Eclipse ADT[1] EPL Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes Yes[2] No Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown No Yes February 2009
GNAT Programming Studio GPL Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes Yes[3] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes June 2009

[edit] Basic

Main article: BASIC
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Gambas Benoît Minisini 5 April 2011 Linux, Unix GPL
Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft April 2010 Windows Proprietary
MonoDevelop Novell and the Mono community January 2011 Cross-platform LGPL
REAL Basic REAL Software August 2011 Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Web Proprietary
SharpDevelop ICSharpCode Team 6 January 2011 Windows LGPL
PureBasic Fantaisie Software 11/07/2011 Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Proprietary

[edit] C/C++

Main articles: C (programming language) and C++
IDE License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Integrated toolchain Profiler Code coverage Autocomplete Static code analysis GUI-based design Class browser Latest stable release C compiler C++ compiler
Anjuta GPL No Yes No FreeBSD Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Yes 2011 06
C++Builder Proprietary Yes No (Kylix deprecated) Yes (Compiler Only) Yes Yes Yes Yes bundled with AQTime Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2010 08
Code::Blocks GPL Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [4] Yes 2010 05 [5] Yes (MinGW + custom) Yes (MinGW + custom)
CodeLite GPL Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Mac OS Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes 2010 12 Yes (GCC + Custom) Yes (GCC + Custom)
Dev-C++ GPL Yes No[6] No FreeBSD Yes No Yes Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Yes 2011 10 (Unofficial Version) , 2005 02 (Official Version) Yes Yes
Eclipse CDT EPL Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes Yes[2] No Unknown Unknown Yes Yes No Yes 2011 06 [7]
Geany GPL Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD Yes No No No No Yes No No Yes 2010 06
GNAT Programming Studio GPL Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes Unknown Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes 2009 06
KDevelop GPL Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Solaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2011 04 External External
LabWindows/CVI Proprietary Yes No No Targets Linux, Pharlap RTOS Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes N/A 2010 Yes No
LccWin32 Freeware / Proprietary Yes Yes (obsolete) No Yes Yes (unstable) Yes Yes Unknown Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown
MonoDevelop LGPL Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes 2012 01 Yes (GCC + Custom) Yes (GCC + Custom)
NetBeans C/C++ pack CDDL Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes[8] Yes[8] Yes[9] Yes[8] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2011 05 [10]
OpenWatcom OSI Yes (32-bit only) partial No MS-DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD Yes GUI remote Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes 2009 02
PellesC Freeware Yes No No Windows CE Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown 2009 08
Philasmicos Entwickler Studio Freeware / Proprietary Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Unknown Yes, wxWidgets Unknown 2011 06 External External
Qt Creator GPL / LGPL / Proprietary Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Symbian, Maemo Yes Yes Unknown Yes No Yes No Yes Yes 2012 02
Sun Studio Freeware No Yes No Solaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 2008 11
Rational Software Architect Proprietary Yes Yes JVM Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Turbo C++ Explorer Freeware Yes No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes 2006 09
Turbo C++ Professional Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes 2006 09
Ultimate++ TheIDE BSD Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes 2011 02
Microsoft Visual Studio Proprietary Yes No No cross-compile to Windows Mobile, Mac OS 7 (v2.x-v4.x only) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2010 04 Yes Yes
Microsoft Visual Studio Express Freeware Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes 2010 04 No Yes
wxDev-C++ GPL Yes No Yes Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Unknown Yes Unknown 2011 10
Xcode Proprietary No No Yes iOS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2011 03 llvm-gcc llvm-gcc
IDE License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Integrated toolchain Profiler Code coverage Autocomplete Static code analysis GUI-based design Class browser Latest stable release C compiler C++ compiler

[edit] Common Lisp

Main article: Common Lisp
IDE License Linux Windows Mac OS X Other platforms editor Debugger Stepper GUI builder Profiler Browsers
Allegro Common Lisp Proprietary Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Unix Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Class browser, Systems, Definitions
LispWorks Proprietary Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Unix Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Class browser, Functions, Errors, Processes, Symbols, Systems
SLIME public domain Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Unix Yes Yes Yes No Yes Class browser, Errors, Symbols

[edit] Component Pascal

Main article: Component Pascal
IDE Developer Platform License
BlackBox Component Builder Oberon microsystems Windows Proprietary similar to Sleepy Cat
CPIde CFB Software Windows Proprietary

[edit] C#

Main article: C Sharp (programming language)
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft 2010 / April 12, 2010 Windows Proprietary
MonoDevelop Novell and the Mono community 2.8 / October 5, 2011 Cross-platform LGPL
SharpDevelop ICSharpCode Team 4.1 / September 22, 2011 Windows LGPL

[edit] Eiffel

Main article: Eiffel (programming language)
IDE License Windows Linux Other platforms Debugger GUI builder Toolchain Profiler Code coverage Autocomplete Static code analysis GUI-based design Class browser Latest stable release
EiffelStudio GPL and commercial Yes Yes Mac OS X / most Unix Yes Yes Yes Yes Automatic testing framework Yes Metrics tool BON / UML class diagramming Multi-view V7.0 November 2011

[edit] Fortran

Main article: Fortran
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Geany Team 0.20 / January 5, 2011 Linux, Windows, Solaris GPL
GNAT Programming Studio AdaCore 4.3.1 / June 2009 Linux, Windows, Solaris GPL
KDevelop KDevelop Team 4.2.3  (June 25, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-06-25)) Linux GPL
OpenWatcom OpenWatcom Community 1.9 / June 2, 2010 Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux OSI
NetBeans NetBeans Community 7.0.1 / Oct 26, 2011 Linux, Windows, Mac OS X CDDL
Photran University of Illinois, Los Alamos National Laboratory 6.0 / June 23, 2010 Linux, Windows, Mac OS X EPL

[edit] Java

Main article: Java (programming language)
IDE License Written in Java Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms GUI builder
BlueJ GPL2+GNU linking exception Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris No
DrJava Permissive Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris No
Eclipse JDT EPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes
Geany GPL No Yes Yes Yes Solaris No
Greenfoot GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris No
IntelliJ IDEA ALv2, proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JBuilder Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes
JCreator Proprietary No Yes No No No
JDeveloper Proprietary OTN JDeveloper License (freeware) Yes Yes Yes Yes generic JVM Yes
jGRASP Proprietary (freeware) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KDevelop GPL No No Yes No Solaris Unknown
MyEclipse Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
NetBeans CDDL, GPL2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes
Rational Application Developer Proprietary Yes Yes Yes No Solaris, AIX Yes
Servoy Proprietary Unknown Yes Yes Yes Solaris Yes
Xcode Proprietary No No No Yes Yes

[edit] JavaScript

Main article: JavaScript
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Anjuta Anjuta Team September 2010 Unix-like GPL
Aptana Studio Aptana, Inc. January 2012 Cross-platform GPL, proprietary
Eclipse Web Tools IBM Cross-platform EPL
IntelliJ IDEA JetBrains May 2011 Windows, Mac OS, Linux Proprietary
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState October 2010 Cross-platform IDE:Proprietary, Edit:GPL, LGPL, MPL
NetBeans Sun Microsystems December 2009[11] Cross-platform CDDL, GPL2
Oracle JDeveloper Oracle Corporation October 2008 Windows, Mac OS, Linux proprietary [1] - free
NuSphere PhpED NuSphere June 2011 Windows Proprietary
Servoy Servoy Developer Team June 2011 Cross-platform Servoy License
WebStorm JetBrains May 2011 Windows, Mac OS, Linux Proprietary

[edit] Lua

Main article: Lua (programming language)
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Decoda Unknown Worlds Entertainment 1.12 / May 14, 2010 Windows Proprietary

[edit] Pascal, Object Pascal

Main articles: Pascal (programming language) and Object Pascal
IDE Developer Latest stable release Windows Linux Mac OS X Mobiles Debugger GUI builder License
Delphi Embarcadero Technologies 2011(XE 2) / September 5, 2011 Yes Yes kylix(No New Updates Available) Yes Yes IOS only Yes Yes Proprietary
Dev-Pascal Bloodshed Software 1.9.2 / July 20, 2002 Yes No No No Yes No GPL
Free Pascal IDE Volunteers 2.6.0 / January 1, 2012 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No GPL
KDevelop KDevelop Team 4.2.3  (June 25, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-06-25)) No Yes No No No No GPL
Lazarus Volunteers 0.9.30 / April 1, 2011 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LGPL with static linking exception
MIDletPascal Code Research Laboratories 3.3 CANDIDATE / April 9, 2011 No No No Yes No GPL
Morfik Morfik Technology Pty Ltd. 2.0.5.27 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Proprietary
MSEide Volunteers 2.6 / March 6, 2011 Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes GPL; modified LGPL for the library MSEgui
Oxygene RemObjects Software 5.0 / August 2011 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Proprietary; free compiler
PocketStudio winsoft 3.0 No No No Yes Yes Yes Proprietary

[edit] Perl

Main article: Perl
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
KDevelop KDevelop Team 4.2.3  (June 25, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-06-25)) Cross-platform GPL
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState 6.0.0 / October 2010 Cross-platform Proprietary
Padre Padre Team 0.92 / November, 2011 Cross-platform Perl
Geany Team 0.20 / January 5, 2011 Cross-platform GPL

[edit] PHP

Main article: PHP
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License Autocomplete Debugger Refactoring support VCS Support
Aptana Studio version 3 or higher(inbuilt editor) Aptana, Inc. January 2012, 3.0.7 Cross-platform GPL, proprietary Yes Yes Yes plugins
RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP) Embarcadero Technologies 2.0 / April 14, 2008 Windows Proprietary  ? Yes  ?  ?
Eclipse PDT Eclipse Foundation / Zend 3.0.0 / June 23, 2011 Cross-platform EPL Yes Yes no CVS, SVN, Mercurial and Git (via plugins)
Geany Team 0.20 / January 5, 2011 Independent (w/ GTK2 support) GPL Yes No no via plugins
HTML-Kit www.chami.com 292 Windows (all) Proprietary  ? No  ?  ?
KDevelop KDevelop Team 4.2.3  (June 25, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-06-25)) Cross-platform GPL Yes No  ? CVS, SVN, GIT
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState 7.0.0 / February 2012 Cross-platform Proprietary Yes Yes  ?  ?
NetBeans Sun Microsystems / Oracle 7.0 / April 20, 2011 Cross-platform on Netbeans CDDL, GPL Yes Yes Limited CVS, SVN, Mercurial, Git via plugin
PHPEclipse www.phpeclipse.com 1.2.2 / September 2009 Cross-platform on Eclipse CPL Yes Yes  ?  ?
PhpED Professional NuSphere Corporation 6.0 / June 6, 2011 Windows Proprietary Yes Yes  ? CVS, SVN, any other Windows-shell integrated
PhpStorm JetBrains 3.0 / November 29, 2011 Cross-platform Proprietary Yes Yes Yes CVS, SVN, Mercurial, GIT, Perforce
PHPEdit WaterProof SARL 3.6.4  (April 9, 2010; 21 months ago (2010-04-09)) Windows Proprietary Yes Yes No CVS, SVN
Quanta Plus KDE Web Dev Team 3.5.8 / October 16, 2007 Linux GPL  ? No  ?  ?
Rapid PHP Blumentals Software 2011 Windows Proprietary Yes Yes  ?  ?
WebDev PCSoft 16 30A160057k / June 22, 2011 Cross-platform Proprietary  ? No  ?  ?
Zend Studio Zend 9.0.1 / December 18, 2011 Cross-platform Proprietary Yes Yes Yes CVS, SVN, Git and others (via plugins)

[edit] Python

Main article: Python (programming language)
IDE Developer Latest stable release version Latest stable release date Platform Toolkit License
Anjuta Naba Kumar 3.0.3.0 2011-06-10 Unix-like GTK+ GPL
Eric Python IDE Detlev Offenbach 4.4.13 and 5.1.1 2011-04-02 Independent Qt GPL
Geany Team 0.20 2011-01-07 Independent GTK2 GPL
IDLE Guido van Rossum et al. 3.1.2 2010-03-21 Independent Tkinter Open source
Komodo IDE ActiveState 6.0.0 2010-10-07 Cross-platform Mozilla platform Proprietary
MonoDevelop Novell and the Mono community 2.4.2 2011-01-19 Cross-platform Gtk# LGPL
NetBeans (7.0 and up will no longer support Python) Oracle 6.9 2010-06-15 Cross-platform Swing GPL
PIDA Team 0.6.2 2010-08-04 Cross-platform PyGTK GPL
PyCharm JetBrains 2.0.1 2011-12-15 Cross-platform Swing Proprietary
PyDev Aptana 2.2.0 2011-06-27 Eclipse (Cross-platform) SWT EPL
PyScripter 2.4.3 2011-09-20 Windows MIT Licence
Python Tools for Visual Studio Microsoft 1.1 2012-02-10 Windows Apache License 2.0
Stani's Python Editor Stani 0.8.4h 2008-02-14 Independent wxPython GPL
wxGlade Alberto Griggio 0.6.3 2008-02-02 Independent wxPython MIT License
Wing Wingware 4.1.2-1 2011-12-12 Linux/Windows/OS X GTK2 Proprietary

[edit] Ruby

Main article: Ruby (programming language)
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License
Aptana Studio with RadRails plugin Aptana, Inc. November 2007, beta Cross-platform GPL, proprietary
IntelliJ IDEA with Ruby Plugin 2.0 JetBrains 8.0 / November, 2008 Cross-platform Proprietary
Komodo IDE / Edit ActiveState 6.0.0 / October 2010 Cross-platform Proprietary
NetBeans Thomas Enebo (JRuby co-lead) 0.111 / April 2011[12][13] Cross-platform CDDL and GPL
RubyMine JetBrains 3.2.4 / September, 2011[14] Cross-platform Proprietary

[edit] Scala

Main article: Scala (programming language)
IDE License Windows Linux Mac OS X Solaris
Eclipse JDT EPL Yes Yes Yes Yes
ENSIME BSD Yes Yes Yes ?
IntelliJ IDEA ALv2, proprietary Yes Yes Yes No
NetBeans CDDL, GPL2 Yes Yes Yes Yes

[edit] Small Basic (Microsoft)

Main article: Microsoft Small Basic
IDE Developer Latest stable release Platform License Cost Autocomplete GUI Builder .NET Framework Version
Microsoft Small Basic Microsoft DevLabs Microsoft Small Basic v 1.0 / 12th July 2011 Windows Proprietary Free Yes No .NET Framework 3.5

[edit] Smalltalk

Main article: Smalltalk
IDE Developer License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder
Dolphin Smalltalk Object Arts Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes
Pharo INRIA MIT License Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes
Squeak squeak.org MIT License Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes
VisualWorks Cincom Proprietary Yes Yes Yes various Yes Yes

[edit] WLanguage

Main article: WebDev#WLanguage
IDE Developer License Windows Linux Mac OS X Other platforms Debugger GUI builder
WinDev PCSoft Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "AonixADT Ada Development Toolkit for GNAT and ObjectADA 3.2.2". http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/aonixadt-ada-development-toolkit-gnat-and-objectada. Retrieved April 24, 2010. 
  2. ^ a b "Qt Eclipse Integration for C++". http://qt.nokia.com/developer/eclipse-integration. Retrieved April 24, 2010. 
  3. ^ "GtkAda User's Guide". February 1, 2010. http://libre.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gtkada-docs/gtkada_ug/gtkada_ug.html. 
  4. ^ Using the wxSmith plug-in (included in distribution, requires wxWidgets SDK)
  5. ^ Code::Blocks 10.05 release announcement / Also provides relatively stable "nightly builds" that are often considered to be an alternative to the official releases
  6. ^ A Linux version was in the works, but has been abandoned since mid-2002; however, Dev-C++ has been reported to run on Wine.
  7. ^ Eclipse Indigo release webpage
  8. ^ a b c "C and C++ Development". Sun Microsystems. http://www.netbeans.org/features/cpp/index.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26. 
  9. ^ "C/C++ Projects Quick Start Tutorial". Sun Microsystems. http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/cnd/quickstart.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26. 
  10. ^ NetBeans 7.0 Release Notes
  11. ^ "Developing with JavaScript". Sun Microsystems. http://www.netbeans.org/features/javascript/index.html. Retrieved 2009-06-29. 
  12. ^ "Ruby and Rails - plugin detail". http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38549/ruby-and-rails/. Retrieved 2011-08-02. >
  13. ^ Tom Enebo (2011-02-17). "Ruby on NetBeans lives!". http://blog.enebo.com/2011/02/ruby-on-netbeans-lives.html. Retrieved 2011-08-02. >
  14. ^ "RubyMine 3.2.4 - fighting for performance". JetBrains. http://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2011/09/rubymine-3-2-4-%E2%80%94%C2%A0fighting-for-performance/. Retrieved 2011-09-07. >
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