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but most of these tools are, like, 10+ years old. Intel VTune, Coverity and KCacheGrind were already a thing in 2003. PC-LINT dates back to 1985. Of course lang
by jcelerier 5y ago
but most of these tools are, like, 10+ years old. Intel VTune, Coverity and KCacheGrind were already a thing in 2003. PC-LINT dates back to 1985. Of course languages more recent don't have to reinvent the ideas that have been developed for these older languages, it would be like saying that the first automaker sucked because the second automaker took less time at producing a vehicle.
- marcodiego 5y agoI remember people using eclipse and having orthography correction on comments, fixmes, "instant" reanalysis whenever the code was changed, automatic creation of accessory methods... things like that. I don't remember the same features were as popular among C/C++ developers at the time. Maybe my feeling is wrong, but I always had a feeling that more "modern" more "dynamic" languages implemented development tools faster or even before the same features became available and popular for C/C++.
- fluoridation 5y agoC++ is much more difficult to parse than Java, so refactoring is a big ask. If your renaming tool can miss some usages it's worse than nothing. IMO C++ also has always had less boilerplate than Java, so boilerplate generators were less useful. C++ also has other typing-saving tools, such as the preprocessor (we can argue about whether it's a good tool, but it can certainly save typing).
- pjmlp 5y agoYou would install Visual Studio plugins for that, which is how Visual Assist became popular.