Gnome Builder 43.0

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22 points·_benj··7 comments

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I wish Builder wasn't forcing me to use flatpak. It's the annoying gnome-ism on an otherwise great tool.

> annoying gnome-ism

It's literally called Gnome-Builder lol

I can't tell you how happy I am to see Golang language server support finally added! Thank you!

This feels like a pretty large project for a small team like this.

But are people actually using it?

I've been using it lately. If nothing else, it's absolutely gorgeous and performant.

I use it daily since around 9 months, it is a great IDE. Even for non-GNOME applications, as you can write plugins that e.g. integrate linters/language servers with just a bit of effort compared to e.g. IntelliJ or Eclipse.

I use it!

Granted, I mostly do GNOME stuff so it’s an easy choice, but it’s an incredible IDE. Fast, doesn’t get in the way with modal dialogs or give me a million equally ugly options for how I can organize my workspace (43 lets you rearrange panels but it has a pretty good model for what actually belongs as a panel so I don’t end up panicking about where I put some new panel when I try to manage Flatpak runtimes or something. It isn’t afraid to have its own opinions about how the UI should be).

I like that it’s opinionated about build systems in a different direction than many IDEs, so if your project uses Meson (like every GNOME module) it knows what to do with it - you don’t end up with IDE-specific gunk anywhere. And if your project uses Flatpak, it knows how to build and run inside the appropriate Flatpak SDK.

Builder really shines when you clone a GNOME app repo (the welcome screen offers a bunch), click the Run button, and everything just happens automatically.

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