The power of the APIs available to a linux developer is immense. To help illustrate I have a quote from wilsonk who is learning the EFL APIs:

Well, I could probably make this thing get me coffee but is it worth the effort 🙂

It’s a good point – where do you even start?

EDI – that’s where. We are building a brand new IDE for linux development that aims to make getting into Linux development as easy as possible. It’s in early stages just now but please check it out and let us know what you think!