On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
So I will be doing a workshop on programming for the biology
department at my university and I was wondering what would best
suit the users.
The following are a must:
support windows & mac ( the more consistent between the two
the better)
free
no large install footprint, preferably simple install
procedure (running on laptops)
syntax highlighting
straightforward to use
anything else is a bonus.
Whats your experience with what you use?
Visual Studio Code seems to be what you need.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Easy to install, Support Windows, Linux, Mac. Has plugin support
from WebFreak001 his Code-D / Serve-D(beta) plugin.
Kitchen and sink support. Easy to use ( as seen with the
popularity ). Relative low memory footprint for the functionality
( compared to several IDEs that do the same ).
Moved to Visual Studio Code a long time ago and loving it. They
are now adding multiple workspaces to the editor, to make things
more easy for people and plugin architecture. Did i mention
massive plugins?
Git Integration to make it easier to teach people what Git is and
what the difference it makes in programming projects.
