Survey: What IDEs do people use?

[Jonathan Turkanis]

Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any place where
it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm particularly
interested to know how widely used are Borland C++BuilderX (on various operating
systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd also like to know what C++ IDE people think
is best for Linux.

Obviously this is not a scientific survey -- I don't have the time or funding
for that. But I'd like to get some rough idea of people's opinions.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

[Larry I Smith]

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any place where
it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm particularly
interested to know how widely used are Borland C++BuilderX (on various operating
systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd also like to know what C++ IDE people think
is best for Linux.

Obviously this is not a scientific survey -- I don't have the time or funding
for that. But I'd like to get some rough idea of people's opinions.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

IF you are looking for a GUI IDE with integrated debugger support,
there are several, but Anjuta (for gnome) and KDevelop (for
KDE, gnome, and several others) are the 2 most often used.
KDevelop in particular is similar to the MS-Visual* IDE's
found on Windows - similar as far as the IDE's GUI style is
concerned.

I haven't used Anjuta in about 2 years, so I can't speak to
its latest features, but I use KDevelop a lot.

Many Linux distros include one, or both, of these IDE's.

Below are the links. Both sites include screenshots
(at the top for Anjuta, and in the left-hand menu-pane
for KDevelop), docs, etc.

http://www.kdevelop.org/

http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Larry
Regards,
Larry

[John Carson]

"Jonathan Turkanis" <te******@kanga roologic.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any
place where it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm
particularly interested to know how widely used are Borland
C++BuilderX (on various operating systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd
also like to know what C++ IDE people think is best for Linux.

Obviously this is not a scientific survey -- I don't have the time or
funding for that. But I'd like to get some rough idea of people's
opinions.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

VC++. I have never seriously used anything else. I use VC++ because:

1. It is pretty good.
2. I figure that Microsoft is successful partly because its knowledge of the
OS gives it the inside track in other development areas. Using Microsoft's
compiler/IDE/documentation is the closest someone outside Microsoft can get
to an inside track.

--
John Carson

[ben]

Eclipse with CDT sounds like a nice choice!

ben

"Jonathan Turkanis" <te******@kanga roologic.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any place where it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm particularly interested to know how widely used are Borland C++BuilderX (on various operating systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd also like to know what C++ IDE people think is best for Linux.

Obviously this is not a scientific survey -- I don't have the time or funding for that. But I'd like to get some rough idea of people's opinions.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

[Espen Myrland]

"Jonathan Turkanis" <te******@kanga roologic.com> writes:

Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any place where
it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm particularly
interested to know how widely used are Borland C++BuilderX (on various operating
systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd also like to know what C++ IDE people think
is best for Linux.

gcc + gdb + emacs + man

--
espen

[Dan Elliott]

Espen Myrland wrote:

"Jonathan Turkanis" <te******@kanga roologic.com> writes:

Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any place where
it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm particularly
interested to know how widely used are Borland C++BuilderX (on various operating
systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd also like to know what C++ IDE people think
is best for Linux.

gcc + gdb + emacs + man

SECOND!

[Fabio Fracassi]

Hi,

KDevelop on Linux.
VC++ on Windows, but only if I have to.

Fabio

[Steven T. Hatton]

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

Hi All,

I hope this is not too far off topic here, but I can't think off any place
where it would be exactly on topic.

I'd like to get some sense of how widely used certain IDEs are. I'm
particularly interested to know how widely used are Borland C++BuilderX
(on various operating systems) and Bloodshed Dev-CPP. I'd also like to
know what C++ IDE people think is best for Linux.

Obviously this is not a scientific survey -- I don't have the time or
funding for that. But I'd like to get some rough idea of people's
opinions.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

I have a lot of hope for the future of KDevelop, but right now, it doesn't
behave in a way that enhances my personal development preferences. It also
has a serious problem talking to my SVN server, and does not yet integrate
well with QT4-rc1, so for now I use Emacs, bash, qmake (and/or autotools),
svn commandline and gdb(I'm just learning). I'm beginning to view the
Unix-like environment as an IDE. Not quite in the sense of those provided
by Borland, Eclipse, VC++, etc., but once the tools are understood, the
collection provides almost the same convenience as a more unified IDE, with
far more flexibility.

I've been spending a good bit of time studying the code base for KDevelop,
and hope to contribute to it in the future. It proved very useful to me in
the firest weeks working with C++ because it set up my header, and
implementation files in a way that worked, and also set up the build
environment. I was then able to examine what it produced in order to learn
how it was done.

The highmark in IDEs I have used is Borland's JBuilder. I know it's not
C++, but after using JBuilder, I can see the limitations in any of the C++
IDEs I looked at. I downloaded VC++ 2005 beta, and was willing to provide
feedback, but it's so broken as to be unusable.
--
If our hypothesis is about anything and not about some one or more
particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics. Thus
mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we
are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.-Bertrand Russell

[Steven T. Hatton]

John Carson wrote:

VC++. I have never seriously used anything else. I use VC++ because:

1. It is pretty good.
2. I figure that Microsoft is successful partly because its knowledge of
the OS gives it the inside track in other development areas. Using
Microsoft's compiler/IDE/documentation is the closest someone outside
Microsoft can get to an inside track.

Oh, but, but, but...Oh, nevermind.
--
If our hypothesis is about anything and not about some one or more
particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics. Thus
mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we
are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.-Bertrand Russell

[Bob Hairgrove]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:36:34 -0400, "Steven T. Hatton"
<ch********@ger mania.sup> wrote:

The highmark in IDEs I have used is Borland's JBuilder. I know it's not
C++, but after using JBuilder, I can see the limitations in any of the C++
IDEs I looked at. I downloaded VC++ 2005 beta, and was willing to provide
feedback, but it's so broken as to be unusable.

You know that Borland is dropping JBuilder and moving to Eclipse now?

Go to: http://tinyurl.com/dodlt and search in the current page for
"Eclipse".

--
Bob Hairgrove
No**********@Ho me.com