Integrated Development Environment [RHEL]

[Winsock]

Curious to know what everyones solution(s) are for IDEs on a RHEL install? I personally have the JetBrains IDE Pack - The suite with all the IDEs available. Unfortunately there is no official repo for them, having to manually install them via tar or their toolbox solution, either way a manual installation must be performed. Let's discuss this and potential alternatives for a system compliant solution.

~ Winsock

[Travis]

@Winsock -

I personally use VSCode with multiple extensions. I install this directly from RPM and Microsoft's hosted repository. Codium (VSCode alternative) is also available and can be installed as a flatpak.

Recently, I've been using Cursor for AI functionality and integration into my workflow and it supports all my existing VSCode extensions. 

I see you've mentioned Jetbrains. The newer versions of RHEL, especially RHEL10 are migrating more towards Flatpak for graphical user applications. Jetbrains does have a Flatpak available for your IDE in question.

Install: flatpak install flathub com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Ultimate

Run: flatpak run com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Ultimate

I don't know if their installer creates a graphical icon or not as part of the available apps, but in my Fedora Remix, any flatpaks that I install, I always just create my own desktop icon to appear in the application sorter.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Ultimate

[Winsock]

I'd remain completely headless if there were a compositor or TUI that could do more than just web browsing and file exploring efficiently. I've used all main stream IDEs and some not available to the public, as well as a completely custom neovim with AI integrated at it's core, developed by myself alone. I can shoot you more details if interested it's a private repo but can be all yours if desired. It was just a fun project for integrating an AI on a near system wide level. I'm currently writing a "LISP" like dialect / language, for specifically polymorphism, concurrency, real time cleanup, network computation and many other things, dynamics is also key, symbolism as well, it's quite the feature set honestly. I was able to get my hands on a very specific source from circa 1993 and had read over it several times to understand the architecture behind it and am still absolutely blown away by the sophistication and power at their hands back then. I'm also on a compliant IS so there are limitations to what I can do, as far as integrating or installing into the system. So I'd have to check on flatpak. There is no issue here at all, honestly just curious, I saw there was a pretty promising look IDE with AI integration called Zed I believe, extensive plugin repo as well. Not too sure on any other detail, but looks good. Appreciate you stopping by and touching base, I will say VScode is too clunky and not fluent enough for my style, but overrall it's a nice and mature piece of software. I've been a JetBrains user for so long now I'm not sure how I'd transition, I'm so used to the configuration and layout, the environment that it provides, etc. Anyway I'll keep sitting here talking to the screen so I'ma slap this one down and hope some more are to come! Please feel free to reply, I'd love to keep chatting!

~ Winsock

P.S.
Love the profile pic, huge fan, always have been, always will be. I remember getting my first N64, haha.

[Winsock]

As of today - Flatpak approved.

IDEs available:

IntelliJ IDEA Community

PyCharm-Professional

CLion

PhpStorm

RustRover

RubyMine

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate

Rider

WebStorm

DataGrip

GoLand
PyCharm-Community

No toolbox though.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

those who value deep AI support while maintaining VS Code familiarity, Cursor stands out as Travis mentioned. For graphical and IDE-heavy workflow, JetBrains is recommended and for AI enhanced fast editing Zed is preferred. 

[Winsock]

Interested in Zed, has a nice white paper and charter. Sticks out a lot. Will look into it, I know it's all GPU as well which, well we all know the maginitude of difference that brings to the power house field. I'm a big big big fan of neovim as well. With IDE plugins, I created my own AI assisted IDE plugin for it, titled AIDE. Artificial Intelligent Development Environment. LUA and C. Was fun but honestly, I don't even use it. I do stick with my JetBrains products, I don't know if I'd ever step away from them, since I know all there is about them.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Winsock if you're already super comfortable with JetBrains and your AIDE, that's still a perfectly reliable and excellent choice too! Thanks for sharing !

[Winsock]

@Chetan_Tiwary_ 
Totally, but there are always new and better things. So I'm open for anything. I'll install Zed here soon, as well as any one else's suggestions! I thought this would be a nice place to start a discussion because I couldn't find much or anything related to a specific or IDE related chit chat on any redhat.com division. If you'd like me to redact anything about aide or anything like that please let me know!


~ Winsock

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Winsock no need to redact! it is fine!

[Winsock]

Some days you'll find me working entirely in a scratch pad or nano! It all depends.