Re: [Vala] State of Vala IDEs

[Luca Dionisi <luca dionisi gmail com>]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Thomas Jollans <t jollybox de> wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 11:02 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> > I like the look of MonoDevelop in general from the few times that I've
> > had a look at it, if you ignore the fact that it has never really been
> > stable. What's the state of its Vala support? Does it work? Does code
> > completion work? Critically, does debugging work?
> >
> > Anjuta, that old horse -- it's never been particularly good to me, but
> > as "the GNOME IDE", it may be worth a look -- how's its Vala support?
> > Debugger? Code completion?
>
> It's been a while since this thread was active. Here are some short
> notes on my experience - note that I haven't spent a lot of time in
> these IDEs as I've been mostly sticking to vim and doing other stuff.
>
>
> Anjuta - would appear to make most sense for an autotools-based project,
> but the code completion is useless: It doesn't complete symbols in the
> current class (or even in the entire local project? I'm not sure). Even
> the dumb completion in vim is better than this. When I tried completing
> something in a library, it did promisingly pop up a list, and then it
> crashed. It tried, at least. Could be worse.

Sometimes it happens to me too. Eventually if I close anjuta and then
open it again, then completion works again.
Not so reliable, admittedly.

--Luca