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Tips on IDE

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Cloud IDEs

General Purpose IDEs

  1. Visual Studio Code

  2. Lapce

  3. Eclipse (with all kinds of plugins)

  4. SpaceVim

JVM Languages

  1. IntelliJ IDEA (community edition available)

  2. Eclipse

Python

  1. Visual Studio Code

    The best IDE …

Tips on JSON

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Shortcomes of JSON

It is suggested that you avoid using the JSON format! TOML and YAML are better text-based alternatives. If readability is not a concern, a binary serialization format is …

Comparison of Collections in C++ and Java

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Plain Old Array

  1. The length/size of array is as in the declaration. Each element of the array is initialized to the default value (null for object).

  2. Array in Java does …

Debug C/C++ Code Using GDB

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. lines use : while functions use ::

  2. use relative path from the executable to implementation files!!!

    b ../../tree.cpp:31 if knot->name()=="GO:0006139"
    
  3. it seems that there is a bug in …

Debug C/C++ Code Using GDB

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. lines use : while functions use ::

  2. use relative path from the executable to implementation files!!!

    b ../../tree.cpp:31 if knot->name()=="GO:0006139"
    
  3. it seems that there is a bug in …