Submitted by Progressor on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 18:57.
Having a Developer Network hosted by a single website that includes samples of code from the most commonly used languages in Linux would be ideal. If a developer simply needed a snippet of code that would perform a simple function, it should be easy to search and find that code. That would make Linux development so much easier. Although, there are websites that do something similar to what I'm talking about; they rarely include code samples from a wide variety of languages. Usually, apps aren't written entirely in a single language. It may be easier to run parts of the installation program, or program itself, in a scripting language, while relying on binaries to do the rest. And so by providing a simple introduction to, let's say Ruby, or Python, or Bash, and providing code samples for how to do simple tasks (like how to display a window, or how to output something to a file) so that developers could easily experiment with and understand the possibilities, would make the development process much faster and easier. And it would attract more developers, and beginning programmers, to Linux so that it could be an even better, more attractive, desktop.