What Free IDE Do You Use? 1055
postermmxvicom writes "I program only occasionally and mostly for personal interest. I went to update my favorite free IDE, Dev C++, yesterday and noticed that it had not been updated since 2005! I went looking for other free IDEs and came across Code::Blocks and Visual Studio Express. I work from a Windows machine, use C++, and make mostly console apps; but have written a few Windows apps and D3D or OpenGL apps. I wanted to know what free IDEs you use and recommend. What do you like about them? What features do they lack? What about them irritate you (and what do you do to work around these annoyances)? For instance, when I used Visual C++ 6.0 in college, there was an error in getline that had to be fixed, and the code indenting in DevC++ needed to be tweaked to suit my liking."
ID what? (Score:2, Funny)
I use nano, textwrangler, and jEdit depending on where I am...what's this "IDE" you speak of?!
Re:Emacs (Score:5, Funny)
That's somewhat obvious.
Re:VI (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure lots of people are happy with emacs.
I'm sure lots of people are happy with American cars too, but we have objective standards for a reason.
Re:Emacs (Score:3, Funny)
vi?
Re:Eclipse and Netbeans (Score:5, Funny)
I've used eclipse since version 2. I can't comment on it, I'm still waiting for it to open.
I'm here all week, try the tuna salad!
Re:Emacs (Score:1, Funny)
An editor to run on that fine OS.
Re:99% of the answers are going to be Eclipse (Score:5, Funny)
If you're writing 10,000 lines in a single file regularly, then your probably need to re-evaluate your coding methods
Word wrap is deceiving. I only wrote 5 lines of code. They are just very long lines.
Re:Emacs (Score:5, Funny)
What else would you need?
Vallium, Panadol and Coke.
Re:I use a magnetized pin (Score:5, Funny)
A magnetized needle and a steady hand? Nah - Real programmers use ....
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
Re:Eclipse and Netbeans (Score:3, Funny)
A rotting whale on the beach.
Re:Eclipse and Netbeans (Score:3, Funny)
Ya, and compared to Jack Black I'm actually kinda attractive.
Re:99% of the answers are going to be Eclipse (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Your VC++ irritation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Emacs (Score:1, Funny)
Indeed, zsh is the best IDE!
Full integration with every programming program ever made, what more could you ask for?
notepad.. (Score:2, Funny)
and nmake. Who needs fancy syntax coloring. Step debuggers are for weenies who can't manage to use printf()
Re:Eclipse and Netbeans (Score:5, Funny)
Excuse me, something's wrong with your boldfaced text. When I mouse over it, nothing happens?
Re:Quite (Score:4, Funny)
# !cc
What else do you need?
Re:Vim (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vim (Score:5, Funny)
Strangely enough, you're not the first person I've seen who's sed that.
Re:Either emacsclient or ed (Score:5, Funny)
Because I lost two of the fingers on my third hand in a freak threshing accident, you insensitive clod.
Re:ID what? (Score:4, Funny)
come on, we are talking about IDEs and you go bring in operating systems... play fair.
Re:Vim (Score:3, Funny)
No - Emacs!
No - Vim!
No - Emacs!
No - Vim!
No - Emacs!
No - Vim!
Welcome to the jihad.
You'd mod me redundant or flame bait, wouldn't you. But ha! I posted as a coward!
"...It's better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees," Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty conviction. "I guess you've heard that saying before." "Yes, I certainly have," mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. "But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes." -- Catch 22
Re:Quite (Score:5, Funny)
You guys are such weenies.
Did you read the author's question? He's doing this for his own personal interest. He doesn't want to have to kill and dress a buffalo with his bear hands just to eat a hotdog.
Re:99% of the answers are going to be Eclipse (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! what a smart comment. I'm impressed. Did you write that yourself, or was there a wizard for it?
-dZ.
Re:Vim (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quite (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vim (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vim (Score:4, Funny)
How do I filter out all these perls of wisdom?
Re:Vim (Score:3, Funny)
make it stop!
Re:Quite (Score:3, Funny)
Well at least having bear hands will make it easier to kill the buffalo. Where do I get a set of those?
Uhm, I'm pretty sure it's part of emacs, but I forget the keystroke.
Re:Quite (Score:3, Funny)
He should have Googled = and :=.
Re:Vim (Score:2, Funny)