On 07/09/2013 23:35, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Well, if you want a production quality multi-platform IDE the only options are InteliJ and Eclipse, both of which are not that well received by most C and C++ guys. The target audience for D.
Just because Eclipse is not well received by the C and C++ community (apparently - even that can be debated), that doesn't mean that is a reasonable appraisal of Eclipse. It might just be an outdated opinion.
I understand Eclipse bashing by the Vi/Emacs/text-editor people, that is an ongoing, but familiar and understood debate that has occured many times before, and is not going away anytime soon I think. (and is really not about Eclipse itself, but text editors vs. heavyweight IDEs, etc.)
But Eclipse bashing by people who use say, VisualStudio, that I don't understand. Last time I tried both toolchains, VS seemed as heavy and "bloated" as Eclipse (CDT) was. Yet CDT seemed quite ahead in terms of features, especially semantics-wise (open definition, code complete, etc.). Admittedly this was 3-4 years ago, and I only toyed lightly with C/C++ code, I didn't do any serious development. But I doubt the situation changed such that VS got much better than CDT, if anything, the opposite is more likely.
-- Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
