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Last few years? Java IDEs have been doing this for decades (plural). C++ IDEs for another decade beyond that.
by stickfigure 5y ago
Last few years? Java IDEs have been doing this for decades (plural). C++ IDEs for another decade beyond that.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoC++ IDEs lagged Java IDEs on this stuff.
- stickfigure 5y agoC++ IDEs predate the existence of Java, let alone Java IDEs. Microsoft Visual C++ was excellent for the time, and did most of what you expect a modern IDE to do. In 1993.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoVisual C++ didn't get Intellisense until 1997 and even then it was poor. C++ has never caught up with the tooling that Java and .Net developers have.
- stickfigure 5y agoIt may not have been branded as "Intellisense" but I remember Visual C++ did many forms of code completion back in the mid 90s. It was quite good for its time. I also used Visual J++ towards the late 90s. Its code completion was good as well. IDEs are great now, but they were plenty good back then too. This is not something new under the sun. The benefits of static typing have been around for a long, long time.