I'd be interested to hear your views on which IDE is best for developing in C++ - Eclipse orMS Visual Studio. What are the positives of each and what are the negatives? Many thanks
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Jump to PostI use neither! I use Gedit for C programming and Kdevelop for C++....Why? IMHO, Kdevelop is the best/simplest IDE out there. Plus I really appreciate Kdevelop's code completion algorithm.
Jump to PostOn MS-Windows I use either VC++ 2010 Express or Code::Blocks. On *nix (rarely) I use Code::Blocks. Never had a reason to use Eclipse. In the early years of programming (1980s and 1990s) I used a text editor, something like Notepad or VI and compiled everything from the command line using …
Jump to PostI know of at least one library that has command-line make files which support multiple compilers on both MS-Windows and *nix. The authors of such libraries created a makefile for each compiler they decided to support. Its quite a task to keep all those make files synchronized.
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