I still use MSVC++ to edit my code, and just compile using GCC via makefile or superlongcommandlinestatements. Some people recommend emacs as a good replacement for MSVC++'s IDE.

Quote:Original post by taby
I still use MSVC++ to edit my code, and just compile using GCC via makefile or superlongcommandlinestatements. Some people recommend emacs as a good replacement for MSVC++'s IDE.

I use XEmacs, you don't really want to recommend an iteration of Emacs to newcomers or people unfamiliar with Unix environments.

I use cmake to build my stuff, I never really liked having the build system tied into the IDE anyway. Also visual studio's project and build management is awful.

I really fail to see what people find so good with visual studio anyway. I've extensively used each version of it since 6.0 to 2008 in my different jobs, and when it comes to c++ it's becoming worse and worse. It's slow as hell, hangs for no good reason all the time (it even take ages to open a simple text file sometimes), code completion works so rarely that I can't ever rely on it, the project management is terrible and don't get along well with any SCMs (including microsoft's own TFS), the build system is very limited, and the project configuration UI is crap (come on, why does it still have to be in a fixed size dialog as of 2008?)

Nowadays at home I use kate under kde. Only thing it misses is completion, but my code is either simple enough not to need it or template heavy stuff where code completion usually fails anyway.

If I really needed completion and using the ide as a gdb front end, I guess I'd use kdevelop, code blocks or something like that.

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For the reason I want to move:

There is nothing wrong with VC++, I just don't think Microsoft released a Linux version of it...

You can use CMake to manage your projects, that way you can use VC++ on Windows and Code::Blocks or Eclipse on Linux without having to maintain multiple build systems.

I'm surprised that some people think so low of MinGW. I've used it primarily for nearly a year, and I haven't had a single problem with code or compiling. I also like the ability of gcc to compile for almost any platform on almost any platform. On top of that, there's tons of useful features that are included in gcc, such as --no-implicit-templates. My single complaint is that I have yet to find an IDE that I am really happy with, although I have yet to try Code::Blocks. I am currently using NetBeans, which is full of features, but lacks in some areas such as performance (which should never be an issue with an IDE). My experience with Dev-C++ was pretty awful. The IDE that I have had the best experience with is MSVC6.0, which sadly doesn't support MinGW.