What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @06:07AM from the does-soda-count-as-a-tool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a free software developer; I maintain one relatively simple project written in C, targeted at end users, but I feel that I could contribute something more to the FLOSS community than my project. Instead of focusing on another project targeted at end users, I thought that I could spend my time working on something FLOSS developers need ('Developers, developers, developers, developers!'). The question is: what more do FLOSS developers need from existing development tools? What would attract new developers to existing FLOSS development tools? Which existing development tools need more attention? I can contribute code in C, Python and bash, but I can also write documentation, do testing and translate to my native language. Any hints?"

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Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux by sopssa · 2010-01-20 07:19 · Score: 0, Troll

It's irrelevant to try to tell the good sides of using it. If you are doing application development, you have most likely used VS, and can see why its so much better than the other tools available. I could try to argue with technical points, but that would be pointless.