GNOME Builder
Shares rank 32 of 33 IDEs by recommenders
Recommended as a nice-looking Linux IDE that makes it easy to package apps for distribution and ships with GNOME editions.
Recommended as a nice-looking Linux IDE that makes it easy to package apps for distribution and ships with GNOME editions.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clean, nice-looking interface
“The FOSS GNOME Builder app has a nicer UI”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux” “Builder looks pretty nice.”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux”
Other IDEs people recommend
The four most recommended other IDEs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBrains IDEs | 233 | 143 | 62% | 13 | 10 yrs39 owners | — |
| IntelliJ IDEA | 206 | 105 | 66% | 13 | 10 yrs18 owners | — |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | 165 | 165 | 50% | 12 | 10 yrs10 owners | — |
| Delphi | 126 | 44 | 74% | 13 | 23 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| GNOME BuilderThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Builder looks pretty nice.”
“The FOSS GNOME Builder app has a nicer UI”
“editions of Gnome come with Gnome Builder”
“GNOME Builder makes it really easy to package it for distribution”
“which GNOME builder is clearly able to do”
“You can do the same thing. In fact, this was the exact method I used to make a few GTK apps.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.