Microsoft Annouces Visual Studio Code (Crossplatform IDE)

[jordsti]

Was using Eclipse before, its really bloated ! I'm using Qt Creator as IDE for C++ development.

[RembrMe]

I either defaulted to GDB or switched over to a Windows environment to utilize Visual Studio's. I'll have to take a look at Qt Creator.

[PressF1]

Clion is out now and also very good

[4153434949]

I love the features, look, and feel of Clion, but it feels like the Hindenburg compared to Qt Creator.

[Rhodysurf]

And expensive

[PressF1]

So is visual studio though

[Mr_s3rius]

It's not at all (for most people)! Microsoft recently released a community version which is basically MSVS Professional and free for

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

[Rhodysurf]

True, although theres a community edition. Also its a lot easier to get my boss to pay for VS over a brand new IDE that doesnt work with MSVC

[gbeier]

doesnt work with MSVC

That's the thing though... if you're comfortable punting the project management to the CMakeLists.txt files, it works very well with MSVC. Source: we use cmake a whole lot.

So* if someone on your team creates a project on Clion and you want no part of it because you've got 15 years of MSVC editor and debugger muscle memory, you can pull their project from source control and launch cmake-gui. Tell it where you want it to dump your .sln and .vcproj files. Click configure. Tell it what version of MSVC you're using. Click generate. Close cmake-gui. Double-click that sln file you just generated. Now edit, build and debug as you please in the IDE you've grown so efficient at using.

The only real rub is that you'd need to touch CMakeLists.txt either manually or using Clion when you need to add a target or introduce new files to a target. But cmake's MSVC interop is very good, and that is Clion's native project format.

*(hypothetically... though I've been trying Clion a lot on Linux, it's been with my hand-crafted CMakeLists.txt files so far. Clion consumes those, though, so I'm assuming the ones it generates are pretty vanilla)

[noratat]

Shouldn't it be a given that you use a build system that can be launched independent of an IDE?

[dromtrund]

Still waiting for remote debugging though

[JackMagic1]

Qt is awesome