Good day fellas, I want a little enlightenment here, what IDE you guys suggest for C++ programming ? I'm currently using netbeans 7.3, the compiling process is pretty slow. thanks before :)

I use Code::Blocks. Hasn't done me any wrong so far.

I use Code::Blocks. Hasn't done me any wrong so far.

is it light enough? because netbeans is pretty slow, I only use 1 gb of memory on my laptop

Visual Studio.. look no further.

I meant the free one :p

Well CB doesn't offer the features that visual studio does, but it's a bit more flexible. You can use any compiler you want, the VC++ compiler if you want, while visual studio is stuck to it's only one.

If your all windows then VC++ should do you fine, but if you like portability and moving around, CB and other IDE's might be better since they're not coupled with Windows. I also don't like how VC++ has to have its own libraries ( "Visual C++ Redistributable Package" )

Visual Studio 2012 Express. Best free IDE you can find on Windows.

Compilation speed is mostly a matter of the compiler, not of the IDE. If you're asking for speed, changing from Netbeans with GCC to code::blocks with GCC will not make much difference.

Benchmarks seem to show that Visual C++ is faster than GCC:

http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml?p1

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/comparing-cc-compilers/184405450

However, C++ 11 support is still very incomplete in the compiler that comes with Visual Studio 2012.

Maybe you can improve compile times using precompiled headers.