Last month my friend and I exchanged our computers. Unfortunately, her computer’s memory is 256MB, only a half of mine. The operating system is Windows XP but mine is Ubuntu Linux. I like writing some programmes for fun but with a low memory I can not install some softwares. Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio (Express Edition) are not fit for me any more. So I have to learn to use some lightweight softwares.
Developing with IDE seems impossible. I have to find a powerful text editor. Now I find Notepad++ and Vim for Windows are very excellent. Although many people said that Emacs is the most powerful text editor, however, I think it is very hard to use. Sometimes I need to write Java code. So I have to learn how to use “ant”, an automatically build utility. In fact, using “ant” instead of some IDEs, such as Eclipse or NetBeans, is not very difficult. For C or C++ programming, I installed Cygwin on her computer. Although Cygwin is not only a C/C++ compilers, it seems a Unix shell running on Windows. Since I have been using Ubuntu Linux for about half a year, I like working on Linux and are farmiliar with it.
For most of my tasks, a good text editor is enough. For Notepad++ and Vim, I prefer Notepad++. It runs faster and much easier to learn.
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