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Can't comment on Java support in Eclipse back then. VS 6's support of C++ back in 2005 wasn't that great, at leat the way I remember it now. Code navigation w
by myk9001 3y ago
Can't comment on Java support in Eclipse back then.
VS 6's support of C++ back in 2005 wasn't that great, at leat the way I remember it now.
Code navigation was very primitive, and you were lucky if it didn't consider the code too complex to offer any navigation around it at all.
Its built-in debugger often wouldn't let you inspect a string's content because it was just another pointer from the debugger's perspective.
But VS 6 had a great plugin -- Visual Tomato, if memory serves -- that made things so much better in terms of code navigation/refactoring/etc.
Writing C++ in Eclipse CDT or KDevelop was simply a pain.
Actually, a plain editor with syntax highlight was probably a better option because it was not even pretending to have "smart" features that would inevitably break on each non-trivial piece of code -- better no promises than false promises.
Delphi, and C++ Builder for that matter, were great as a package: fast GUI builder, editor, debugger, etc. That said, I don't remember them offering much in terms of working with code: finding an identifier usages, refactoring, etc.
As to praising JB, it wasn't my intent to single them out, surely there're other great IDEs. Their products is just something I'm personally familiar with. If something better happens to cross my way, I'll have no problems switching.
- Narishma 3y agoVS 6 is from 1998, not 2005.
- myk9001 3y agoPoint taken. Didn't mean to say its release date is 2005, but that's definitely not obvious from my comment. It was still mainstream in 2005, I think. Do you remember if I get that right? At least we were using it at work in 2005. VS release cadence is much faster nowadays, isn't it? :)
- Narishma 3y agoThere were 2 releases between VS6 and VS2005, so slightly slower than the current cadence of a new release every couple of years but not by much. I think VS6 remained popular for a long time because it was the last release before they switched to the heavier .NET-based IDE.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> I think VS6 remained popular for a long time because it was the last release before they switched to the heavier .NET-based IDE. The in my opinion much more important reason was that Visual Studio 6 was the last version of Visual Studio that was capable of running under Windows 9x (every version of Visual Studio that was released after required some Windows-NT-based Windows version; Visual Studio .NET 2002 was the last version to run under Windows NT 4.0: Visual Studio .NET 2003 required at least Windows 2000; keep in mind that Windows XP only came out end of October 2001).