View source for Integrated Development Environments for Objective C

== Tools from the GNUstep project ==

There is an official IDE from the GNUstep project, which is [[ProjectCenter]]. It is actively maintained and developed.

Independent of the IDE you want to use you probably want to rely on [[Gorm]] or [[Renaissance]] for developing graphical user interfaces.

Besides ProjectCenter there are some more IDEs, that might offer some features more, run under Free Software environments and offer support for developing with Objective C.

The IDEs below usually rely on clang. So you benefit most from using them if you develop your applications using clang and the new (ng) GNUstep runtime.

== Free Software or Open Source ==

=== KDevelop ===

[https://www.kdevelop.org/ KDevelop] is the official IDE from the KDE project based on Qt and the KDE libraries. Besides many other languages it supports Objective C. It supports projects that are build upon GNUMakefiles and thus should support GNUstep projects quite well. It is GPL 2 licensed and easily available via the package managers of most distributions and operating systems.


=== Visual Studio Code ===

[https://code.visualstudio.com/ Visual Studio Code] is a relatively small electron (JavaScript) app, shipped as Open Source Software from Microsoft. Besides many other languages it supports Objective C very well. It is MIT licensed and you are expected to obtain it from Microsoft.

== Proprietary ==

=== JetBrains CLion ===

[https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/ JetBrains CLion] is a proprietary, full featured IDE for C and C++ (the framework is well known for Java developers), but also [https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/objective-c-c-support.html supporting Objective C].