Editing KDevelop (section)

{{Short description|Integrated development environment}}
{{Primary sources|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox software
| name                  = KDevelop
| title                 = KDevelop
| logo                  = Breezeicons-apps-48-kdevelop.svg
| screenshot            = Kdevelop--breeze dark theme.png
| developer             = [[KDE]]
| released              = {{Start date and age|1999|12|06}}<ref>{{cite web
  | url          = http://www.kdevelop.org/index.htmlfilename=main1999.html
  | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20030621132836/http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=main1999.html
  | archive-date = 2003-06-21
  | title        = KDevelop – News of 1999
  | publisher    = [[KDE]]
  | date         = 1999-12-06
  | access-date  = 2012-12-27
  }}</ref>
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|Q468841|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
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| discontinued           = 
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]]
| operating system       = [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]] (preview, no official pre-built installer)
| size                   = 
| genre                  = [[Integrated development environment]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/blob/master/org.kde.kdevelop.appdata.xml|title=org.kde.kdevelop.appdata.xml|date=15 March 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
  | url     = https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/blob/master/COPYING
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200704222133/https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/blob/master/COPYING
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = 2020-07-04
  | title     = COPYING · rKDEVELOP
  | website     = invent.kde.org
  }}</ref>
}}

'''KDevelop''' is a [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]] [[integrated development environment]] (IDE) for [[Unix-like]] computer [[operating system]]s and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. It provides [[Source code editor|editing]], navigation and [[debugging]] features for several [[programming language]]s, and integration with [[Build system|build automation]] and [[Version control|version-control systems]], using a [[Plug-in (computing)|plugin]]-based architecture.<ref>{{cite web
 | url         = https://www.kdevelop.org/
 | title       = A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, JavaScript and PHP
 | publisher   = KDevelop
 | website     = www.kdevelop.org
 | access-date = 2017-01-17}}</ref>

KDevelop 5 has [[Parsing|parser]] backends for [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Objective-C]], [[OpenCL]] and [[JavaScript]]/[[QML]], with plugins supporting [[PHP]], [[Python 3]] and [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web
 | url         = http://kfunk.org/2016/08/23/whats-new-in-kdevelop-5-0/
 | title       = What's new in KDevelop 5.0?
 | date        = 2016-08-23
 | website     = Personal Blog of Kevin Funk
 | access-date = 2017-01-17}}</ref> Basic [[syntax highlighting]] and [[code folding]] are available for dozens of other [[Source code|source-code]] and [[Markup language|markup]] formats, but without [[Semantic analysis (compilers)|semantic analysis]].

KDevelop is part of the [[KDE]] project, and is based on [[KDE Frameworks]] and Qt. The C/C++ backend uses [[Clang]] to provide accurate information even for very complex codebases.