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What Free IDE Do You Use?

postermmxvicom writes "I program only occasionally and mostly for personal interest. I went to update my favorite free IDE, Dev C++, yesterday and noticed that it had not been updated since 2005! I went looking for other free IDEs and came across Code::Blocks and Visual Studio Express. I work from a Windows machine, use C++, and make mostly console apps; but have written a few Windows apps and D3D or OpenGL apps. I wanted to know what free IDEs you use and recommend. What do you like about them? What features do they lack? What about them irritate you (and what do you do to work around these annoyances)? For instance, when I used Visual C++ 6.0 in college, there was an error in getline that had to be fixed, and the code indenting in DevC++ needed to be tweaked to suit my liking."

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  1. ID what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use nano, textwrangler, and jEdit depending on where I am...what's this "IDE" you speak of?!

    1. Re:ID what? by Hucko · · Score: 3, Funny

      come on, we are talking about IDEs and you go bring in operating systems... play fair.

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  2. Re:Emacs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's somewhat obvious.

  3. Re:VI by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure lots of people are happy with emacs.

    I'm sure lots of people are happy with American cars too, but we have objective standards for a reason.

  4. Re:Emacs by Bazouel · · Score: 2, Funny

    vi?

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  5. Re:Eclipse and Netbeans by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've used eclipse since version 2. I can't comment on it, I'm still waiting for it to open.

    I'm here all week, try the tuna salad!

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  6. Re:Emacs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    An editor to run on that fine OS.

  7. Re:99% of the answers are going to be Eclipse by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're writing 10,000 lines in a single file regularly, then your probably need to re-evaluate your coding methods

    Word wrap is deceiving. I only wrote 5 lines of code. They are just very long lines.

  8. Re:Emacs by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    What else would you need?

    Vallium, Panadol and Coke.

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  9. Re:I use a magnetized pin by shockwaverider · · Score: 4, Funny

    A magnetized needle and a steady hand? Nah - Real programmers use ....

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png

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  10. Re:Eclipse and Netbeans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    A rotting whale on the beach.

  11. Re:Eclipse and Netbeans by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ya, and compared to Jack Black I'm actually kinda attractive.

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  12. Re:99% of the answers are going to be Eclipse by fractoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perl is not an appropriate language for monolithic applications.

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  13. Re:Your VC++ irritation by dominious · · Score: 2, Funny

    wait a minute! This is a car analogy! How is a bad analogy, guy??

  14. Re:Emacs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed, zsh is the best IDE!

    Full integration with every programming program ever made, what more could you ask for?

  15. notepad.. by davygrvy · · Score: 2, Funny

    and nmake. Who needs fancy syntax coloring. Step debuggers are for weenies who can't manage to use printf()

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  16. Re:Eclipse and Netbeans by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work from a Windows machine, use C++, and make

    I could be snide and say that's a symptom common to most Java programmers, but it would be too easy.

    Excuse me, something's wrong with your boldfaced text. When I mouse over it, nothing happens?

  17. Re:Quite by malcomreynolds · · Score: 4, Funny

    # cat > program.c
    # !cc
    What else do you need?

  18. Re:Vim by 5865 · · Score: 5, Funny

    too awk ward

  19. Re:Vim by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strangely enough, you're not the first person I've seen who's sed that.

  20. Re:Either emacsclient or ed by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because I lost two of the fingers on my third hand in a freak threshing accident, you insensitive clod.

  21. Re:Vim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    No - Emacs!
    No - Vim!
    No - Emacs!
    No - Vim!
    No - Emacs!
    No - Vim!

    Welcome to the jihad.

    You'd mod me redundant or flame bait, wouldn't you. But ha! I posted as a coward!


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    Catch 22

  22. Re:Quite by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vi, gdb/dbx and strace should be all any unix/linux coder needs.

    You guys are such weenies.

    Did you read the author's question? He's doing this for his own personal interest. He doesn't want to have to kill and dress a buffalo with his bear hands just to eat a hotdog.

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  23. Re:99% of the answers are going to be Eclipse by dzfoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! what a smart comment. I'm impressed. Did you write that yourself, or was there a wizard for it?

            -dZ.

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  24. Re:Vim by bumby · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't grep it.

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  25. Re:Quite by Chad+Birch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well at least having bear hands will make it easier to kill the buffalo. Where do I get a set of those?

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  26. Re:Vim by iron-kurton · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop it guys. Less is more.

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  27. Re:Vim by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    How do I filter out all these perls of wisdom?

  28. Re:Vim by RangerElf · · Score: 2, Funny

    make it stop!

  29. Re:Quite by Kozz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well at least having bear hands will make it easier to kill the buffalo. Where do I get a set of those?

    Uhm, I'm pretty sure it's part of emacs, but I forget the keystroke.

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  30. Re:Quite by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    He should have Googled = and :=.

  31. Re:Vim by Karlprof · · Score: 2, Funny

    I gnu you guys would take it too far.