Topic: What IDE or editor do you use?

andersand.net Topic Opener Joined: 2024-11-12, 19:48 Posts: 11 OS: Linux Version: Latest main branch Pry about Widelands Location: Norway	Posted at: 2024-11-12, 21:24 As a novice C++ developer I thought it would be a good idea to learn what you use as a coding environment. I don't want to pay for CLion, and it's not free to use for open source unfortunately not even planned. I'm curious what you use even if it's CLion, and what you would recommend for someone who does not want to spend 99€ per year on IDE license for hobby project. For making a tiny feature I just used vim accompanied by command line tools like find to search/navigate. But now that I may start on a larger feature I think it would be useful to use an IDE... So what do you use? Top Quote

Nordfriese Joined: 2017-01-17, 18:07 Posts: 2044 OS: Debian Testing Version: Latest master One Elder of Players Location: 0x55555d3a34c0	Posted at: 2024-11-12, 21:44 I exclusively use a graphical plaintext editor plus command line. Pluma for the win In the past I used Netbeans a lot. It's mainly aimed at Java, but has support for C++ and a number of other languages as well. Code::Blocks is also a C++ IDE that I used to use and remember favourably. Top Quote

tothxa Joined: 2021-03-24, 12:44 Posts: 476 OS: antix / Debian Version: some new PR I'm testing Tribe Member	Posted at: 2024-11-12, 23:41 nvi¹, rgrep and screen The original BSD vi as packaged in Debian ↩ Top Quote

hessenfarmer Joined: 2014-12-11, 23:16 Posts: 2726 One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria	Posted at: 2024-11-14, 20:27 I use notepad++ on windows as editor, tortoise Git graphical user interface for Versioning and the MSYS Mingw building environment Top Quote

andersand.net Topic Opener Joined: 2024-11-12, 19:48 Posts: 11 OS: Linux Version: Latest main branch Pry about Widelands Location: Norway	Posted at: 2024-11-14, 20:36 Thanks for sharing. As a developer by trade (C# mostly) I've gotten used to the conveniences of using IDE's. I've decided to give Qt Creator a go for C++ since it seems to be quite familiar from other IDE's. It has a lot of nice features to navigate and figure out how the code is put together. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to pick up on errors while editing, and you still have to run `./compile.sh -a && ./widelands` to compile and run Edited: 2024-11-14, 20:37 Top Quote