Anjuta is an integrated development environment

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 for the C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

, C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

, Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

, JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

, Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

 and Vala

Vala (programming language)

Vala is a programming language created with the goal of bringing modern language features to C, with no added runtime needs and with little overhead, by targeting the GObject object system. It is being developed by Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini. The syntax borrows heavily from C#...

 computer programming language

Programming language

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s, written for the GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 project. It comes standard on base installation DVDs of major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, openSuse, Fedora, and Mandriva (amongst others).

Anjuta features project management, application wizards, an interactive debugger built over gdb, and a powerful source code editor

Source code editor

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 with source browsing, code completion and syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting

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.

Because it is distributed under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

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, Anjuta is free software

Free software

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Anjuta DevStudio (2.x)

The goal of Anjuta DevStudio is to provide a customizable and extensible IDE framework and at the same time provide the implementations of common development tools. libanjuta is the framework that realizes the Anjuta IDE plugin framework and Anjuta DevStudio realizes many of the common development plugins.

It integrates new programming tools including the Glade Interface Designer

Glade Interface Designer

Glade Interface Designer is a graphical user interface builder for GTK+, with additional components for GNOME. In its third version, Glade is programming language–independent, and does not produce code for events, but rather an XML file that is then used with an appropriate binding .Glade is...

 and the Devhelp

Devhelp

Devhelp is a GTK+/GNOME browser for API documentation; it works natively with gtk-doc ....

 API help browser.

See also

• Comparison of integrated development environments
  Comparison of integrated development environments
  The following tables list notable software packages that are nominal IDEs; standalone tools such as source code editors and GUI builders are not included.- ActionScript :- Ada :- Basic :- C/C++ :...
  
  
• List of GNOME applications

External links

• Anjuta home page