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[Jakob Eriksson <jakob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed!

Most of the current developers are, I suspect, seasoned programmers, but we
have the opportunity to attract new programmers too and starting kit would be
a nice guidance saying "with these tools you can't stray too far off".


best regards,
Jakob


On September 4, 2012 at 8:51 PM Voldyman <voldyman666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree with munchor's dog fooding reference but do not agree with the other
> part.
> When i started contributing to elementary project (which is quite recently
> ;)) i had never done serious linux app development. I came from a mainly web
> and c# for desktop background although after completely moving to linux few
> years ago the c# part had stopped. It was a little hard
> For me to find good tools for development, the guys at #elementary-dev (you
> all) suggested scratch-text-editor which i couldn't you (still can't) so i
> continued using Sublime Text which i had been using for web dev and now i am
> pretty comfortable with it.
>
> There should be a recommended set of tools for a programmer to begin with.
> He/she can later pick up or drop tools according to their preference.
>