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Does it support C++ ? To me, "Visual Studio" is about C++ development and I miss a similarly powerful C++ IDE on the Mac. From what I can see, it only supports

Does it support C++ ? To me, "Visual Studio" is about C++ development and I miss a similarly powerful C++ IDE on the Mac. From what I can see, it only supports C# (and family), so what good is it to a C++ / OSX dev ?

garblegarble 9y ago
Have you tried out Jetbrains CLion? I used it briefly back in their EAP stages and it seemed to be going in a VS quality direction...
santaclaus 9y ago
Xcode is ok for C++ (not nearly as many features as Visual Studio on Windows, though).
- satysin 9y ago
  Xcode is pretty crap for C and C++ imho. Qt Creator or CLion are light years ahead of Xcode.
- delegate 9y ago
  I used to think that way too until I opened my project in Visual C++ (with the Visual Assist addon). The productivity boost was so great that I've decided to never use Xcode for C++ again and do all my development in a VM if I have to. Best alternative is Qt Creator and it's probably what I'm going to use for my next C++ project on the mac. Many people recommend CLion, but I've never really managed to actually use it (and it isn't free and runs on the jvm). Still VC++ is a powerful tool for C++ development, which is probably quite hard to beat, so having it on the mac would make using Windows totally optional :).
  - beagle3 9y ago
    VSCode is constantly improving. I haven't used Qt Creator in years, so I can't compare, but ... for my uses it is way ahead of PyCharm and WebStorm; I suspect it rivals QtCreator by now (as long as you're not writing a Qt based project)
- plorkyeran 9y ago
  You can write C++ in Xcode (and I do so on a daily basis), but it's pretty terrible. None of the IDE features more complicated than build-and-run actually work reliably, and the debugging experience is miserable compared to VC++.
- tmsldd 9y ago
  Purists like me would do to a simple text editor (in my case Sublime) and command line tools.. Anyway.. I will give it a try... it's nice to have a competitor IDE to xCode, although they don't look like targeting the same audience.
wtetzner 9y ago
I've heard QT Creator is pretty good for cross-platform C++ development.
- dasloop 9y ago
  Qt Creator is quite good when editing. The main area where I really miss Visual is for debugging apps. Visual (the real one :) has the best debugger in the industry. Qt Creator is barely OK.
  - lberserq0 9y ago
    MSVS debugger in new MSVS has too poor functionality than windbg family debuggers.

garblegarble 9y ago

Have you tried out Jetbrains CLion? I used it briefly back in their EAP stages and it seemed to be going in a VS quality direction...

santaclaus 9y ago

Xcode is ok for C++ (not nearly as many features as Visual Studio on Windows, though).

satysin 9y ago
Xcode is pretty crap for C and C++ imho. Qt Creator or CLion are light years ahead of Xcode.
delegate 9y ago
I used to think that way too until I opened my project in Visual C++ (with the Visual Assist addon). The productivity boost was so great that I've decided to never use Xcode for C++ again and do all my development in a VM if I have to. Best alternative is Qt Creator and it's probably what I'm going to use for my next C++ project on the mac. Many people recommend CLion, but I've never really managed to actually use it (and it isn't free and runs on the jvm). Still VC++ is a powerful tool for C++ development, which is probably quite hard to beat, so having it on the mac would make using Windows totally optional :).
- beagle3 9y ago
  VSCode is constantly improving. I haven't used Qt Creator in years, so I can't compare, but ... for my uses it is way ahead of PyCharm and WebStorm; I suspect it rivals QtCreator by now (as long as you're not writing a Qt based project)
plorkyeran 9y ago
You can write C++ in Xcode (and I do so on a daily basis), but it's pretty terrible. None of the IDE features more complicated than build-and-run actually work reliably, and the debugging experience is miserable compared to VC++.
tmsldd 9y ago
Purists like me would do to a simple text editor (in my case Sublime) and command line tools.. Anyway.. I will give it a try... it's nice to have a competitor IDE to xCode, although they don't look like targeting the same audience.

wtetzner 9y ago

I've heard QT Creator is pretty good for cross-platform C++ development.

dasloop 9y ago
Qt Creator is quite good when editing. The main area where I really miss Visual is for debugging apps. Visual (the real one :) has the best debugger in the industry. Qt Creator is barely OK.
- lberserq0 9y ago
  MSVS debugger in new MSVS has too poor functionality than windbg family debuggers.