KDevelop4 Beta 3 Released

mikesd81 writes "KDE announced on May 30th the third public beta of KDevelop4. Some new features include a new code-writing assistant, a new documentation plugin showing you the API docs for Qt and KDE APIs, a reworked Mercurial plugin, and a rewrite of the classbrowser plugin. Two plugins from the KDevelop source, QMake support and Qt Designer integration, were let go and moved to the KDE Playground area."

Comments

Re:Watcom C++

[ardor]

Intel's icc is a collection of special cases. If your code does not fit into this grid of special cases, it will be slow.
Your actual answer is called LLVM.

Re:Typical FOSS

[ultrabot]

Other than that... Nothing can match Visual Studio. Period.

It's not necessary to match Visual Studio. It's important to be good enough. Many programmers are still relying on non-IDEs, so VS level operation is far from necessary.

I don't recall having an open source linux-compatible version of Visual Studio.

Re:Watcom C++

[Rob Riggs]

Yes, when Intel and MSFT make compilers that target UltraSPARC, Itanic, and POWER (all, not some) then I'll have a look-see again.

Open Watcom enjoys virtually no support. It is not going anywhere. It's another sucky piece of code that was no longer competitive in the marketplace. It needs developers like a fish needs a bicycle. No one in their right mind would waste time adding support for this compiler to KDevelop.

You know, the only people that I know that seriously dislike GCC are the commercial compiler venders. It's not perfect, but it has a major advantage that no other compiler has -- it frees the developer from worrying about vendor specific compiler issues when writing cross-platform code. One less thing to worry about.