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Why do you think that is? I've always wondered why there's such a small list of decent IDEs for C anything. I usually just stick to vim and a handful of plugi
by jaimex2 8y ago
Why do you think that is?
I've always wondered why there's such a small list of decent IDEs for C anything.
I usually just stick to vim and a handful of plugins.
- user5994461 8y agoThere are no good development tools for C++ because it's an impossibly hard language to parse and process. For instance, try writing an auto completion tool for C++ and Java. The first one take orders of magnitude more work for a mediocre result. Using vim is symptom of the problem. The available tooling is so bad or non existent that it's comparable to a text editor.
- josefx 8y agoFor a long time the tools were either proprietary or GNU. Sadly gcc worked well enough that its policy of not exposing anything that could be abused by proprietary software meant that any tooling that surfaced had to work around the free compiler. Remember the day emacs got full featured refactoring support based on GCC? Stallman singlehandedly killed that for exposing too much. Good C++ tooling only started to turn up when Apple made its move from gcc to llvm/clang and we actually got competition in the free compiler space and a compiler based framework to build tools on top.