A More Searchable Developer Network

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.
Great idea!
Submitted by darcysoftwarede... on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 03:59.

Like www.codeproject.com does with programming language filters (checkboxes) this Linux specific software developer network could allow programmers to "hone in" on a specific language. Take C++ for example, we could benefit from ARM Linux embedded development code snippets and projects for solid state devices. For GUI app developers, we also could benefit from KDevelop, Qt4, and other C++ sample projects. In the next few years to come, the masses will choose Linux because of the huge number of quality, easy - to - use GUI applications.

Determining the Snippits
Submitted by bproffitt on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 12:25.

We can host code snippits! The biggest challenge will be marshaling the resources to find the ones to share, and building a way to search the pieces of code. I like this filtering suggestion.

Brian Proffitt
Community Manager
Linux Developer Network

Great idea
Submitted by Amanda McPherson on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 01:48.

What do you think it would take to make this work? What type of system is best suited for this? Would you be willing to help us with this?