Best IDE for C/C++

Ankur

Ankur

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For 4 years I have been learning/working on Turbo C and Visual Studio 2008. The 2008 is in the college not on my PC, they work only on XP. Now I want to shift to Windows 7 for work, what is the best environment for it? I know about Visual Studio 2010, but how much does that cost? I think it is costly. Is there a good replacement to Visual Studio for C/C++?
 
The express version is free to use (both visual studio and visual C++).
There is also netbeans with the c/c++ plugin.
Codelite and code::blocks are also alternatives.
 
The express version of Visual Studio 2010 is free and fairly decent. I've always preferred NetBeans or Eclipse, though, but both are written in Java and I find them a bit annoying to work with on low-powered machines. For just learning, Code::Blocks is brilliant (very lightweight too), though I haven't used it for a while.

I have to say, KDevelop is overall quite possibly the best C++ IDE I've ever used... however, it's (sadly) still a bit unpolished and plain C support is at the moment somewhat flaky (though they're making good progress on it).
 
hackapelite said:
. I've always preferred NetBeans or Eclipse.
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I heard many good things about NetBeans so i reccomend it. But if you are considering eclipse, you might as well go wash toilets in some lousy pub.. Compared cu Visual studio, is hell. It's buggy and very unstable. It has tons of features, but god forbid, i had to work in it for faculty, but every project was trial and error. Even setting eclipse up was trial and error..
 
That's odd... for me Eclipse has been one of the most reliable and glitch-free IDEs, the main things that annoy me about it is the sluggishness and generally somewhat kludgey UI. Perhaps I'm just lucky?
 
hackapelite said:
That's odd... for me Eclipse has been one of the most reliable and glitch-free IDEs, the main things that annoy me about it is the sluggishness and generally somewhat kludgey UI. Perhaps I'm just lucky?
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It's an esoteric thing. My feelings for Eclipse are based purely on sumbling upon it, and needing to do lots of things in a short time. It's a massive tool, and i guess that if you know just how to harness it, it's awesome, but that's not the only thing a good IDE should be. More code, less configuring. Here's a more detailed rant of mine, from their official forum . http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/883202/#msg_883202
 
hackapelite said:
That's odd... for me Eclipse has been one of the most reliable and glitch-free IDEs, the main things that annoy me about it is the sluggishness and generally somewhat kludgey UI. Perhaps I'm just lucky?
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Eclipse has worked well for me too.
I would recommend Eclipse. Although I have never used eclipse for windows properly. But for Linux it has worked well.
 
ayan said:
It's an esoteric thing. My feelings for Eclipse are based purely on sumbling upon it, and needing to do lots of things in a short time. It's a massive tool, and i guess that if you know just how to harness it, it's awesome, but that's not the only thing a good IDE should be. More code, less configuring. Here's a more detailed rant of mine, from their official forum . http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/883202/#msg_883202
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Hm... maybe it's just a CDT thing? I've mainly used Eclipse for Java, I really haven't used it much for C++, only simple OpenGL/SDL test and learning projects, but at least with those I never noticed any major issues.
 
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