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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Which IDE do you recommend for php-src development?
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From: tovilo.ilija@gmail.com (Ilija Tovilo)

Hi Carlos

On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 11:44=E2=80=AFPM Barel <barel.barelon@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>
> For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to u=
se it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really =
insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles. Af=
ter trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something els=
e.
>
> So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand th=
at people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if there =
was something that most php internals developers used.

I tried to like CLion, but it was extremely laggy for me every time I
tried it. php-src contains some rather large files, and even some dsl
(zend_vm_def.h) that didn't work well at all. I also didn't find a way
to add simple highlighting support for PHP test files.

VSCode works surprisingly well, I've used it for C development for
years. I created a simple guide for setting it up, including gdb. It
shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes. [1]

Zed is also already a decent option that essentially just works out of
the box. Unfortunately, it's currently lacking debugging support. [2]

> One important feature would be to easily work with the project running on=
 a docker container

Can't help you there, I don't use Docker for C development.

Ilija

[1] http://php.github.io/php-src/introduction/ides/visual-studio-code.html
[2] https://zed.dev/