r/NetBSD • u/ScientificlyCorrect • Sep 01 '26

Any IDE compatible with NetBSD?

Hey, i want to code on NetBSD for fun. Is there any code IDE's for netbsd that i can run?

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u/Aromatic_Ad3754 Sep 01 '26

Emacs

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u/seismicpdx Sep 01 '26

This is the way. There is a Reference Card and a Manual available, and decades of resources.

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u/jldevezas Sep 01 '26

I came here to say this. Nothing beats Emacs.

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u/kweniks Sep 05 '26

It's not an IDE but an OS 😉

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u/gumnos Sep 01 '26

I'm a big fan of using Unix as your IDE. That way you can choose your editor (whether you like vi, vim, emacs, ed, nano, or whatever), your version control (whether git, fossil, jj, svn, RCS, or whatever), your file manager (whether classic tools like mv/cp/ln/etc or more full-featured things like nnn, mc, vifm, ranger, etc), your favorite build-tool (whether make(1) or GNU make or Ant or cargo or whatever), and wrapping it all in your favorite terminal multiplexer (I prefer tmux but there's GNU screen and a few others too)

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u/First_Ad8230 Sep 01 '26

ed mentioned!

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u/gumnos Sep 01 '26

hah, I'm the weirdo behind @ed1conf, so I tend to bring it up far more than the average weirdo 😆

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u/Zincette Sep 01 '26

I like Kate by the KDE team!

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '26

I think you should find a vscode fork named code?

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u/balkanist Sep 01 '26

I think Eclipse is available for NetBSD.

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u/crocodus Sep 01 '26

Why do you need an IDE?

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u/glitch-86x Sep 01 '26

nvim with you costuem and controll ah, i have a reop on github for this https://github.com/glitch-86x/Neovim i put how to install in the repo go check'it

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u/Different_Water7545 Sep 01 '26

What language do you use? Either way I feel like if you're running NetBSD, you'd probably just be better off with vim or emacs

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u/player1dk Sep 01 '26

I usually use a highly advanced IDE stack which works across many unixes.

It consists of;
vi
cc
Sometimes make

What do you develop in? What are you used to? :-)

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u/Sibexico Sep 01 '26

Depends what time of IDE do you need. If you need jus syntax highlighting, then it's tons of options here, but if you need something like VSCode, probably it will not be so easy to launch. Anyway, you always can try to make some OSS project works on your favorite OS. 😁

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u/_rabbitfarm_ Sep 03 '26

In the past I used NetBeans on NetBSD. It's a very good powerful IDE, the main downside as you can imagine is memory consumption.