Delphi: why breakpoints from time to time are not usable (green highlighted line on IDE)?

Debug info isn’t present in the file. Make sure that you’re using the Debug configuration. (Project Manager tree, expand Build Configurations, make sure Debug is bold. If it’s not, right click Debug and choose Activate from the context menu.) Make sure you then do a Build of your project, not just a Compile. If that …

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Young people using Emacs?

My “highly extensible editor” of choice is vim. Started using vi 10 years ago, at age 17, and I haven’t really looked back. I like to stay away from my mouse as much as possible. I rarely work in compiled languages these days, so the only thing I feel like I’m missing from an IDE …

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What is the difference between jedi and python language server in VS code IDE?

Jedi is an auto-completion library written in Python while the language server is implemented in C#. The latter was done for performance and to share a common code base between the Python extension for VS Code and the Python workload of Visual Studio. Eventually the language server will become the default experience in the Python …

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What is the best Ruby on Rails environment for a Visual Studio user?

If you want to stick with Visual Studio, you can always use the Ruby in Steel plugin by Sapphire Steel. The best traditional IDE for Ruby is probably NetBeans, it even has a special stripped-down Ruby Edition. However, note that unlike less expressive languages like Java, C# or VB.NET, you can not only get by, …

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