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Developer Tools

Builder

Create applications for GNOME

Christian Hergert

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Description

Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for

GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies

such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will

appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

You can rely on predictable releases of Builder with each new release of

GNOME every six months.

Features:

• Built in syntax highlighting for many languages

• Side-by-side code editors

• Multi-monitor support

• Code overview mini-map

• Integration with Git

• Integration with Autotools, Cargo, CMake, Gradle, Meson, Maven, Make, PHPize, and Waf

• Clang based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnostics

• Python based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnostics

• Vala based auto-completion and diagnostics

• Auto indentation support for C, Python, Vala, and XML

• HTML, Markdown, and reStructuredText, and Sphinx live preview

• Optional Vim, Emacs, and SublimeText style editing

• An integrated software profiler for native applications

• An integrated debugger for native applications

• Support for building with jhbuild and flatpak runtimes

• Support for viewing TODOs found within your code base

• Fast fuzzy text search across files and symbols

• Arduino integration with arduino-cli

Version

v50.0Apr 24, 2026