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Off topic. Could you recommend an ide to work with c++?

by techas 5y ago

ibobev 5y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows and QtCreator for Linux.
- CornCobs 5y ago
  I find visual studio to be absolutely horrendous for C++. Refactoring doesn't work (even a simple rename symbol!) The errors aren't accurate, autocomplete seems to suggest every symbol from the stdlib before the class defined in the file itself and can't tell when it should suggest classes vs functions/variables. Oh and of course compile errors are absolutely useless but I suppose that's a C++ thing in general. The error panel shows the (last? First?) Error in a chain of errors, which is always something deep in library code. E.g. accidentally tried to copy a non-copyable object using unique_ptr? You can't find the offending callsite, it just points you to xmemory and at best the class being wrongly used.
  - ncmncm 5y ago
    Compile errors will anyway be getting better as concept support gets built out.
jll29 5y ago
CLion from JetBrains and Microsoft Visual Code are the best commercial ones for Linux, NetBeans is a free (as in freedeom and open source) one (that also supports many other languages like Java and Python). What I don't recommend is Eclipse - it's complex and confusing for beginners (but a bit faster than some others).
- MetricExpansion 5y ago
  I didn’t think NetBeans supported C++ anymore?
  - mdaniel 5y ago
    Yeah, at least according to the repo it seems they now delegate to the ccls language server and just do syntax highlighting via the textmate plist grammars that are so commonly paired with language servers * https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/12.3/cpplite#cpplite https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/12.3/cpplite#cpplite * https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.3/cpplite/cpplite.editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/cpplite/editor/file/resources/cpp.tmLanguage.json https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.3/cpplite/cpplite...
jcelerier 5y ago
I use Qt Creator on every platform
dwrodri 5y ago
I can testify to JetBrains products, they're quite good. I haven't used CLion in a few years because I don't like depending on a dev tooling that costs money. I use VSCode because I hop between Python, Bash, Go, C, and C++. That being said, CLion definitely offers a much better debugging experience, even when VSCode has all the right plugins.
whimsicalism 5y ago
CLion, VSCode, Vim - in order of decreasing tooling.
mattgreenrocks 5y ago
CLion is quite good IME. Visual Studio, historically, has been excellent, but I haven’t used Windows full time in a decade.
harry8 5y ago
vim with the YouCompleteMe plugin (which uses clang-complete) is pretty good. Contrary to a sibling post eclipse CDT is fine (especially with vim bindings). It depends what you want from your IDE maybe?
mpreda 5y ago
qt-creator is a nice open-source IDE: https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator They offer binary releases, but it's also possible to compile from source without too much trouble. Written in C++, it's pretty snappy. Supports meson.

Off topic. Could you recommend an ide to work with c++?

by techas 5y ago

Off topic. Could you recommend an ide to work with c++?

ibobev 5y ago

Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows and QtCreator for Linux.

CornCobs 5y ago
I find visual studio to be absolutely horrendous for C++. Refactoring doesn't work (even a simple rename symbol!) The errors aren't accurate, autocomplete seems to suggest every symbol from the stdlib before the class defined in the file itself and can't tell when it should suggest classes vs functions/variables. Oh and of course compile errors are absolutely useless but I suppose that's a C++ thing in general. The error panel shows the (last? First?) Error in a chain of errors, which is always something deep in library code. E.g. accidentally tried to copy a non-copyable object using unique_ptr? You can't find the offending callsite, it just points you to xmemory and at best the class being wrongly used.
- ncmncm 5y ago
  Compile errors will anyway be getting better as concept support gets built out.

jll29 5y ago

CLion from JetBrains and Microsoft Visual Code are the best commercial ones for Linux, NetBeans is a free (as in freedeom and open source) one (that also supports many other languages like Java and Python). What I don't recommend is Eclipse - it's complex and confusing for beginners (but a bit faster than some others).

MetricExpansion 5y ago
I didn’t think NetBeans supported C++ anymore?
- mdaniel 5y ago
  Yeah, at least according to the repo it seems they now delegate to the ccls language server and just do syntax highlighting via the textmate plist grammars that are so commonly paired with language servers * https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/12.3/cpplite#cpplite https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/12.3/cpplite#cpplite * https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.3/cpplite/cpplite.editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/cpplite/editor/file/resources/cpp.tmLanguage.json https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.3/cpplite/cpplite...

jcelerier 5y ago

I use Qt Creator on every platform

dwrodri 5y ago

I can testify to JetBrains products, they're quite good. I haven't used CLion in a few years because I don't like depending on a dev tooling that costs money. I use VSCode because I hop between Python, Bash, Go, C, and C++. That being said, CLion definitely offers a much better debugging experience, even when VSCode has all the right plugins.

whimsicalism 5y ago

CLion, VSCode, Vim - in order of decreasing tooling.

mattgreenrocks 5y ago

CLion is quite good IME. Visual Studio, historically, has been excellent, but I haven’t used Windows full time in a decade.

harry8 5y ago

vim with the YouCompleteMe plugin (which uses clang-complete) is pretty good. Contrary to a sibling post eclipse CDT is fine (especially with vim bindings). It depends what you want from your IDE maybe?

mpreda 5y ago

qt-creator is a nice open-source IDE: https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator They offer binary releases, but it's also possible to compile from source without too much trouble. Written in C++, it's pretty snappy. Supports meson.