Just curious - what development tools do the avid haiku programmers use? Do they use PE? Paladin? Or do they use something like Eclipse and just compile the code in Haiku? I just got done with two VB.net classes and I’ve got some free time and wouldn’t mind dabbling/learning C++.
check out darkwyrm’s tutorials (under “development” at the top of this page) – they’re a really good way to get into the language, and to learn haiku conventions and api. going through them, i used pe first and compiled in terminal. now, i’m using paladin.
Thanks! Just curious though - do you think anyone uses one of the major IDEs like Eclipse or Netbeans and then moves the project into Haiku for compilation? It just seems that you would need one heck of an IDE to tackle a large project like Haiku? Maybe Paladin is the key? Also are there any visual (drag and drop)tools for GUI development?
i’ve not been made aware of any drag & drop editor yet (i’ve been at this for all of a month). from what i’ve been able to gather, some folks use text editors, some use an ide and either way it’s the compiler that pieces everything together. i do appreciate paladin’s dropdown menu on new projects offering a choice of versioning systems (git, svn, hg).
Thanks for the info. I’ve taken classes in VB.Net, Java, C# and Python and am used to a large scale IDE. I purchased the DarkWyrm’s book on lulu.com. I’ll give Paladin a try.
Honestly, I’m completely bored with Windows. From my experience, it uses too many resources for the required tasks. It takes too long to get things done and it lags way too much. My hardware is fairly recent, so it’s not the hardware.
I like the way Haiku is clean and simple. I like the quick response I get when using it. Haiku has real potential. I don’t need Flash or half of the plug-ins a normal person would require. I would like to see the openJDK port kept up to speed though (It’s allowed me to use countless JAR apps).
I’m the sole technician in the lab where I’m employed. I log ALOT of data into SQLite3. I see Haiku has an SQLite package and have installed it. I’d like to make a copy of my data and put it on a test box in the lab. It’d be interesting to see a sample c++ app with a GUI interface linked to an SQLite file.
I have the rest of the semester free of programming classes. I’ve already started going through Yoder’s book. Much of it seems a review to me. I’m anxious to make good use of the Haiku developers efforts.