I have Acer 1 mini laptop that I use on the road. What development tools (ide's, frameworks) are recommended so it will be still light? I'm programming mainly in Java and C++, with XP installed.
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Well Visual Studio is out of question :).
You could use some light editor like Notepad++ and a command line compiler.
Bojan Milenkoski
2009-04-10 07:35:00
I have Visual Studio C# Express edition running on this Dell Mini with the MSDN 2008 library installed. So Visual Studio is most definitely not out of the question. It works just fine for me. I also run Eclipse too, and though it's slow to start up, it works quite well after that.
Dylan Bennett
2009-04-10 08:22:03
I was kidding about Visual Studio, but not much. I suppose you have an external hard drive or the internal one is not a 4GB (8GB) solid state drive. These laptops are not intended for real development. And then again you could bring an extra monitor, keyboard, mouse, solar charger, beer cooler...
Bojan Milenkoski
2009-04-10 10:48:45
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Code::Blocks is a pretty nice C++ IDE for a low resolution screen. (ref)
Blorgbeard
2009-04-10 08:08:52
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Cruachan
2009-04-10 09:04:06
some clue as to the -1 on this would be helpful - i see no reason why it's not relevant or appropriate
Cruachan
2009-04-10 10:25:21
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Vi / vim. I take it Ctrl+Alt+F1 still works on Linpus/Xandros/UNR?
I'm not joking here (:-) It has decent syntax highlighting support. And it has that cool :make thing. :)
For example, in C++, you can do:
:make
and it will do a very IDE-ish thing (kinda similar to Turbo C now that I think about it) - pop up a list of errors you can cycle through. Also, you could (I suppose):
:!javac hello.class
To compile your Java programs (w/out the error box though). Also, it's support for splitting itself into boxes is very flexible - I hate VS's method now.
Lucas Jones
2009-04-10 09:19:35
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Emacs is a very powerful editor which you can use to do all your Java and C++ coding. With an extension like Emacs Code Browser, you'll be good to go.
I would have normally mentioned Eclipse, which I still this is not as heavy as people talk it up to be, but I'll leave that for you to decide.
Mystic
2009-04-10 09:34:56
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I find Process Explorer to be very helpful for judging how "light" a tool is.
Stephen Denne
2009-04-10 10:22:51
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I have a lot of class mates with similar laptops (Eee PC etc). They all seem to use Eclipse for Java development. With CDT (http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/) you could use that for C++ as well.
Tobbe
2009-04-10 20:08:03