I actually had Claude do a lot of research into libraries. We tried a LOT of them before finding Gtk# 3 stable enough on the version used. What also was a factor was finding a version of dotnet on Linux that was stable for this combination. And it wasn't so much what would compile together, it was more what packages were available for MX Linux (my preferred flavor).
Gtk 3 has a weird way of doing scrolled controls that I couldn't accept because the nesting caused all kinds if issues. Also, the Gtk text control is incredibly slow when the file in it grows past 600 lines.
I wrote the editor control with an architectural design I created originally back in 2004, and subsequently lost. Much, much faster implementation. Took about 3 weeks with Claude.
Also wrote a treeview, listbox, colorpicker. Those took a day or two each with Claude. I will be releasing those controls in a dotnet library when I am finished with SimpleIDE.
And what makes this project significant is there's a lack of VB.NET tools on Linux.
It has been challenging trying to get Gtk 3 widgets to play nice. Finally just rolled my own custom-drawn editor, treeview, and listbox. Going to release them later in a library.
Definitely a great deal of nostalgia for me. Years ago, I had written this project up from scratch and later lost all my source code in an accident.
I learned about vibe coding two months ago and, wow, writing this with Claude has been lots of fun. Almost to the point in the project of having full AI integration in the IDE.
A lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. SimpleIDE provides a modern development environment specifically designed for VB.NET projects on Linux systems.
Most people misunderstand what's really going on at the federal level. The federal government is a conglomerate of corporations (all listed on Dunn & Bradstreet), and the parent corporation has been forced into chapter 11 bankruptcy, and is also absorbing the debts of the District of Columbia municipal corporation's chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Musk is merely auditing and liquidating all the subsidiary corporations at the order of the bankruptcy court. That is why no federal judge is able to shut him down. Musk is walking into agencies with a court order and cannot be stopped.
Gotta remember - Trump was the king of bankruptcies. He had several very large corporations of his own go under.
When Musk and Trump are done, the federal government will be very lean indeed.