There are many development tools available for Xubuntu. A list of some of these is included below.
Anjuta is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++.
Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers.
Eclipse is an IDE for Java and other programming languages. It forms the basis for closed-source programs such as JBuilder.
Eric is a fully featured Python and Ruby IDE.
IDLE is the Python IDE built with the Tkinter GUI toolkit.
KDevelop is a IDE for KDE which supports many programming languages.
MonoDevelop is an IDE for writing Mono/.NET applications in C# and other languages.
NetBeans is a Java IDE that features support for CVS and a form builder.
Quanta is a powerful IDE for web development and features support for DocBook editing.
Bazaar-NG is a decentralised version control system used for Xubuntu development.
CVS is an advanced version control system used by many open-source projects.
Subversion (SVN) is a powerful version control system intended as a replacement for CVS.
Glade is a user interface designer for building GNOME and GTK applications.