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Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

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Re: Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

#13

I'm not a C/C++ dev, so forgive my ignorance. Is Visual Studio [Community] not the standard anymore?

VSC is really, really great. Meanwhile, the previous free VS's were not as full-featured, none of them run on OSX or Linux, and some Windows users still prefer GCC for various reasons.

Re: Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

#15

I'm not a C/C++ dev, so forgive my ignorance. Is Visual Studio [Community] not the standard anymore?

VSC is really, really great. Meanwhile, the previous free VS's were not as full-featured, none of them run on OSX or Linux, and some Windows users still prefer GCC for various reasons.

Your comment suggests that current VS runs on OSX? I'll have to check that out!

Re: Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

#16
post #12

I'm not a C/C++ dev, so forgive my ignorance. Is Visual Studio [Community] not the standard anymore?

I use QtCreator: It's pretty solid and has good and fast code completion.

QtCreator on OSX has proven buggy for me in the past. I tried to give it another try recently, and it depended on a version of Xcode that is 2 version numbers ago. I'd have to edit the various installation assertions myself to get it to find and use modern Xcode.

Re: Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VSC is really, really great. Meanwhile, the previous free VS's were not as full-featured, none of them run on OSX or Linux, and some Windows users still prefer GCC for various reasons.

Your comment suggests that current VS runs on OSX? I'll have to check that out!

Visual Studio does not run on anything other than Windows.

However there is an Atom-like code editor called Visual Studio Code that is multi-platform running on Windows, OS X and Linux. I believe VSCode is built on the same platform (Electron?) as Atom although I might be wrong.

Re: Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE

#20

I'm not a C/C++ dev, so forgive my ignorance. Is Visual Studio [Community] not the standard anymore?

On Windows Visual Studio is still very much the default in the context of Windows only developers.

Some people/projects prefer to use MinGW-W64 builds with an IDE such as Code::Blocks, CodeLite, QtCreator, etc.

With VS Community coming out last year it has given more people/projects access to a full Visual Studio environment which is very nice IMHO. I have not seen many FOSS projects switch to using Visual Studio and MSVC (the short name for the Visual C++ Compiler) over MinGW-W64 though. I suspect this is just down to "if it ain't broke" though more than anything.

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