Geany is an open source IDE/Code editor that has been in active development since 2005. In celebration of their 18th birthday, Geany released version 2.0, which among other features adds support for the Godot game engines scripting langauge, GDScript. Key Features of the Geany IDE: New features added in Geany …

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Microsoft recently announced they are killing off Visual Studio for Mac and the replacement is clearly the C# Dev Kit and updated Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. The C# Dev Kit is actually a collection of tools, the C# Dev Kit, Intellicode for C#, the C# services and the …

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Visual Studio Code for the Mac, once known as Mono Develop then Xamarin Studio, is being shut down by Microsoft. Visual Studio for Mac will continued to be supported with bug fixes and Apple platform updates for one more year. Details from the announcement: Today we are announcing the retirement …

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Nearly a year after the release of GitHub Copilot, GitHub/Microsoft have just released GitHub Copilot X. Copilot X has moved from ChatGPT 3 to ChatGPT 4 and now offers context aware conversations (it remembers what you’ve talked about and responds accordingly). The “X” part of Copilot X represent that Copilot …

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Sometimes a basic feature is added to a decades old product and it can really change the way you work, with Visual Studio 2022 the addition of breakpoint groups could be exactly that feature. Breakpoint groups are exactly what they sound like, a way of organizing debugging breakpoints into groups, …

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The 10x Editor is a new (currently in beta) code editor for the C++ language. It is only available for Windows right now, with other platforms intended to come later, you can download it for free during the beta process. The entire mantra of C++ is performance and simplicity. It …

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AppCode is one of the suite of developer tools from JetBrains (which also include IDEs such as Rider, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm and CLion). The focus of AppCode is on programming languages specific to the Apple ecosystem, specifically Swift and Objective C. On December 14th they released an update, AppCode 2022.3 …

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CLion is an IDE from JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ IDEA, Rider, Fleet, WebStorm and several other programming tools. While the recently released Fleet is aimed at Visual Studio Code, CLion is aimed more at the full version of Visual Studio, or more specifically Visual C++. It is built on …

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Today (September 13th) is the International Day of the Programmer and to celebrate Fanatical are giving away several game development themed books. The day of the programmer is the 0x100th day of the year in hexicdecal, or the 256th day of the year. The books in the bundle include: Creating …

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If you are looking for a streamlined but lightning quick alternative to Visual Studio Code, the in development Lapce editor may soon be perfect for you. It is currently very early in development, yet is already a very useable product. Lapce is written using the Rust language, is open source …

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