KDevelop is a free and open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for Unix-like computer operating systems and Windows.

It provides editing, navigation and debugging features for several programming languages, and integration with build automation and version-control systems, using a plugin-based architecture.

[6] Basic syntax highlighting and code folding are available for dozens of other source-code and markup formats, but without semantic analysis.

[14] The custom C++ parser used in earlier versions, which had poor support for C++11 syntax, was replaced by a new Clang-based backend.

The integrated CMakeFile interpreter was also removed in favour of JSON metadata produced by the upstream CMake tool.

Semantic language support was added for QML and JavaScript, using the parser from Qt Creator, alongside a new QMake project-manager backend.

KDevelop is programming language independent and build system-independent, supporting KDE, GNOME, and many other technologies such as Qt, GTK+, and wxWidgets.

KDevelop has supported a variety of programming languages, including C, C++, Python, PHP, Java, Fortran, Ruby, Ada, Pascal, SQL, and Bash scripting.