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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."
I already have a code assistant, he's called Intern 1.0, he does all the shit work I don't want to do, and when I don't know how to do something, he figures it out, lays out the algorithm for me, and then I take the credit.
Since he doesn't have a family or girlfriend, he also works about twice the number of hours I do.
I don't see how KDevelop can improve on that.
Maybe the best free C/C++ IDE. For other languages old & true Netbeans or Eclipse without a doubt, but for C and C++, it's the only one me.
Thanks!
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Last week when everyone was talking about their favorite ide's I kept thinking that kdevelop should have this or has that.
It's the one IDE that I've used for Linux development (besides vi) that I've used for years. I'm looking forward to the new class browser.
Why can't I stuff auto_ptr's into STL objects? I always get leaks.
Seriously, someone needs to find who wrote the fucking memo that says you can have all the regressions you want as long as your applications use Qt4.
It's a new app, there is no such thing as a regression. Same applies to many other KDE4 progs.
That being said, C++ intelligence for KDevelop4 rocks. Too bad it's not as stable as Qt Creator yet (so I already sort of jumped the ship).
For kdevelop4, perhaps they could consider the approach taken by emacs for gdb integration as "competitive" measure- i.e. just act as all-singing, all dancing code showing frontend for gdb, with normal gdb console visible at all times. For many scenarios, dumbened frontends just can't hack it.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
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.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
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.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Actually, KDevelop (at least version 3) has a very nice Intel C++ support, and Sun's compiler (whatever it's called nowadays) support too, I think. Even if KDevelop didn't support a particular compiler, the only thing missing would be the jump-to-error functionality.
And Watcom, is, well, irrelevant (ISO C++, anyone?).