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Don't these already exist? For example codeblocks?

by martin_ 14y ago

ansgri 14y ago
Does codeblocks have advanced code manipulation tools, i.e. refactoring support (in the presence of complex templated code)? It's an extremely complex problem for C++, and JetBrains seem to have the right brains to solve it.
- martin_ 14y ago
  Doesn't look like it - AppCode definitely looks way better, I was just curious that there may be others in this arena already.
zalzane 14y ago
Codeblocks is essentially notepad with a gui for mingw compiler options. It cant be compared with visual studio in terms of development, refactoring, and debugging tools.
- martin_ 14y ago
  Their features page states otherwise: http://www.codeblocks.org/features http://www.codeblocks.org/features -- Multiple compilers (Mingw, MSVC, Borland, and more).. Build in debugger, plugin support, etc. I haven't used it, so i'm just assuming their website is accurate
  - andrewflnr 14y ago
    Having used it, I know the debugger works. I didn't get into the more complicated stuff much.
- geon 14y ago
  > notepad with a gui for mingw compiler options That was a bit harsh. It definitely isn't VS, but there is code navigation, auto completion, debugging etc.
andrewcooke 14y ago
eclipse is the best c ide out there at the moment for non-ms platforms. intellij idea used to have a third-party c/c++ plugin, which was ok, but it stopped being maintained a while back. this was frustrating because otherwise you can develop in intellij in most popular languages. so c/c++ support had been a strange omission for some time - see this support issue, for example - http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-86304 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-86304 (i haven't seen anything saying that this will be an intellij idea plugin - but afaik that's how all their other products work).
- pjmlp 14y ago
  Netbeans is also quite good, given that it is the official IDE for Solaris development. What I miss in Netbeans is an integrated static analyzer like Eclipse's CDT (Codan).

Don't these already exist? For example codeblocks?

by martin_ 14y ago

Don't these already exist? For example codeblocks?

Does codeblocks have advanced code manipulation tools, i.e. refactoring support (in the presence of complex templated code)? It's an extremely complex problem for C++, and JetBrains seem to have the right brains to solve it.

martin_ 14y ago
Doesn't look like it - AppCode definitely looks way better, I was just curious that there may be others in this arena already.

zalzane 14y ago

Codeblocks is essentially notepad with a gui for mingw compiler options. It cant be compared with visual studio in terms of development, refactoring, and debugging tools.

martin_ 14y ago
Their features page states otherwise: http://www.codeblocks.org/features http://www.codeblocks.org/features -- Multiple compilers (Mingw, MSVC, Borland, and more).. Build in debugger, plugin support, etc. I haven't used it, so i'm just assuming their website is accurate
- andrewflnr 14y ago
  Having used it, I know the debugger works. I didn't get into the more complicated stuff much.
geon 14y ago
> notepad with a gui for mingw compiler options That was a bit harsh. It definitely isn't VS, but there is code navigation, auto completion, debugging etc.

andrewcooke 14y ago

eclipse is the best c ide out there at the moment for non-ms platforms. intellij idea used to have a third-party c/c++ plugin, which was ok, but it stopped being maintained a while back. this was frustrating because otherwise you can develop in intellij in most popular languages. so c/c++ support had been a strange omission for some time - see this support issue, for example - http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-86304 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-86304 (i haven't seen anything saying that this will be an intellij idea plugin - but afaik that's how all their other products work).

pjmlp 14y ago
Netbeans is also quite good, given that it is the official IDE for Solaris development. What I miss in Netbeans is an integrated static analyzer like Eclipse's CDT (Codan).