On א', 2005-09-04 at 19:26 +0200, Danny Lieberman wrote: > Michael > > Your IDE options on Linux are a bit limited. Most real programmers seem > to stick with Emacs. > > My personal experience with Eclipse is that the IDE is non-standard, > very java and web oriented, slow and prone to crashing. > Having said that, they seem to be making an effort to be friendlier to > C/C++ developers - see this recent announcement > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6555370872.html
I've tried Eclipse CDT (3.0 for Eclipse 3.1) recently and, judging by my standards (which mostly consist of Visual Studio 2003 for C++ development, which I like a lot, although non-free), they are making progress at the right direction. From my few days of superficial experience with Eclipse CDT: Cons: - The menus are still as busy as always (looks like Visual Studio 2003 + XDE... heck, even Visual Studio 2005's menus are lighter) - Sometimes, it's a tad slow (it might take up to 1 second for the Code Assist[1] menu to pop-up) - No auto-indent for C++. - No Visual Studio-compatible keyboard behavior :) - Minor inconveniences for the Visual Studio-adapted (e.g. Find dialog doesn't automatically pick up the word you're on) Pros: - Free software. - So far it was stable for me and allowed me to edit my projects with a bit more convenience. - CVS integration. - Very cute diff/merge tool. - C++ refactoring (though nowhere as cool as Eclipse's Java refactoring tools). BTW, the official version on Sun JRE 1.5 was significantly faster than RedHat's so-called "Native Eclipse" (the new version is available in fedora-devel). [1] Eclipse's name for autocomplete popup (what Microsoft dubs "Intellisense"). ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
