GNOME Builder

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GNOME Builder
Original author(s) Christian Hergert
Initial releaseMarch 24, 2015;8 years ago (2015-03-24)
Stable release
45.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (16 September 2023;51 days ago (16 September 2023))
Repository
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Predecessor Anjuta
Available inMultilingual
Type Integrated development environment
License GPL-3.0-or-later [2] [3]
Website wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder

GNOME Builder is a general purpose integrated development environment (IDE) for the GNOME platform, primarily designed to aid in writing GNOME-based applications. [4] It was initially released on March 24, 2015. [5] The application's tagline is "A toolsmith for GNOME-based applications". [4]

Contents

Features

At GUADEC 2016 Christian Hergert provided a demo on YouTube of an upcoming version of GNOME Builder. More features will be integrated once GTK Scene Graph Kit will have been merged into GTK. sysprof was forked and its version number bumped from 1.2.0 to 3.20 [9] and was integrated in version 3.22. [10]

GNOME Builder uses GNOME Code Assistance to provide code diagnostics for CSS, HTML, JS, JSON, Python, Ruby, SCSS, shell script and XML. Jedi is used for code completion for Python. Clang is used for code assistance for the C-like languages. Rust diagnostics are provided by using the Language Server Protocol to communicate with the Rust Language Server.

User interface

Most of the interface is dedicated to the centrally positioned code editor. The editor automatically recognizes most programming languages and will highlight the text accordingly. When a version control system is used, colored bars next to the line numbers indicate changes to those lines. For supported languages, additional symbols highlight lines that contain errors or poorly formatted code.

Builder can switch between Builder's own, Vim-like and Emacs-like keyboard bindings.

Around the code-editor, additional panels can be toggled into view. These include a project-tree, a terminal-window, and a help-browser. The project tree allows the user to perform file and folder operations.

Development

The development of GNOME Builder was crowdfunded in January 2015 on the Indiegogo platform. The campaign reached 187% ($56,245) of its $30,000 funding goal. [11]

Version history

Version NumberRelease DateNotes
3.16.024 March 2015Initial "preview" release [5]
3.16.113 April 2015Included improvements to the user interface, file management and syntax highlighting. [12] [13]
3.16.216 April 2015Brought mostly bug fixes and some improvements to project management. [14] [15] [16] [17]
3.16.318 May 2015Included a source-overview-map for scrolling and updates to the preference-dialogs. [18]
3.18.023 September 2015Was released with the rest of GNOME 3.18. [19]
3.18.115 October 2015Brought improvements to Vala code completion and error-hinting. The Jedi-plugin for Python code-completion was improved as well. [20]
3.2023 March 2016Was released with GNOME 3.20. [21]
3.20.46 May 2016Included stability and performance improvements, [22] including re-implementation of support for opening remote files. [23]
3.22.22 November 2016Introduced preliminary support for Rust and its GTK bindings. [24]
3.22.422 December 2016Included various build system improvements and better support for building Flatpak packages [25]
3.32.03 March 2019Major refactoring of the application's code. [26] Included improved GDB integration and an initial Glade integration. [27]
3.32.26 May 2019Improvements to building apps and bug fixes. [28]
3.32.311 June 2019Included localization improvements, and bug fixes. [29]

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  2. ↑ Hergert, Christian (2014-09-07). "COPYING · master · GNOME/gnome-builder" . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  3. ↑ "README.md · master · GNOME/gnome-builder".
  4. 1 2 "Builder: A toolsmith for GNOME-based applications". wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved 2020-04-23. A tool to help you write and contribute to great GNOME-based applications.
  5. 1 2 Hergert, Christian (2015-03-24). "GNOME Builder - 3.16.0". Gnome Mail Services. Retrieved 2020-04-23. As some of you know, I've just made our initial "preview" release, 3.16.0!
  6. ↑ Lerch, Ryan (2014-08-04). "Builder — a new IDE specifically for GNOME app developers". fedoramagazine.org. Retrieved 2020-04-26. […] GNOME Builder — an IDE that will focus purely on GNOME applications, with a goal of making it "Dead Simple".
  7. ↑ "Are we (I)DE yet?" . Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  8. ↑ Hergert, Christian (2016-01-21). "Builder Plugins – Part I". Zen and the Art of GNOME. Retrieved 2020-04-26. We support writing plugins in a variety of languages. Currently, C, Vala, and Python 3 are all supported in Builder.
  9. ↑ "sysprof in Debian". packages.debian.org. Debian . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  10. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2016-10-17). "GNOME Builder 3.22.1 Adds Support for Sysprof Visualizers, Polishes the UI". Softpedia . Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  11. ↑ "Builder, An IDE of our GNOME". Indiegogo . 2015-01-27. Retrieved 2020-04-26. I need your support so that I can work on Builder full time. I'm asking for $30,000 to cover my costs […]
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  13. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2015-04-17). "GNOME Builder IDE Gets a Massive Update in GNOME 3.16.1". Softpedia . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  14. ↑ Hergert, Christian (2015-04-16). "Gnome-Builder 3.16.2". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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  19. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2015-09-22). "GNOME Builder 3.18 Officially Released Ahead of the GNOME 3.18 Desktop Environment". Softpedia . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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  21. ↑ "GNOME 3.20 Released With Various Refinements And Application Updates". WebUpd8. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
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  23. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2016-05-07). "GNOME Builder 3.20.4 IDE Re-Implements Support for Opening Remote Files". Softpedia . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  24. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2016-11-02). "GNOME Builder 3.22.2 Released with Technology Preview for Rust Support, More". Softpedia . Retrieved 2020-04-23. 3.22.2 also includes a technology preview for Rust support
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