Slant community chat on DiscoursePro Powerful debugging and performance optimization
Netbeans not only debugs your code, and points out errors but also gives you hints on which sections of your code could be further optimized.
Pro Autocompletes your code
Code auto-completion is of great help in agile development environments, where you're pumping out a new version as soon as possible. In such environments you need your IDE to be "as fast as you code", hence Netbeans can be of great assistance in such situations. The IDE will auto-com...
Con A little slow to load
The Netbeans IDE is known to take a large memory as compared to other lighter IDE's available in the market. Slowdown can decrease productivity and frustrate programmers.
Pro Great syntax highlighting and auto-completion
Qt Creator has a code model which basically has the same information as the compiler. So it can do really nice syntax highlighting (e.g. of virtual methods or local variables) as well as provide great code completion.
Pro Fast and fully keyboard-navigatable
Responsive UI, no need to use the mouse for the power users.
Con Poor multi-window mode support
While multiple windows are supported, many operations will activate in the primary window (search, debug, goto-line... etc).
Pro Easy to customize
CLion offers plenty of configuration options for setting up the IDE how you like.
Con Proprietary
Clion is proprietary software which costs $199/1st year for a business license or $89/1st year for an individual license.
Pro Smoothly integrated to Mac OS X
Really nice user experience: runs fast and with a sleek interface.
Pro Integration with Objective-C
Xcode is the best IDE for writing Objective-C++
Con Some things are plain quirky.
The way they do "Search" or "Search/Replace" (in source and in file) is a major PITA. The dialogs to call up the options for these are fiddly and the whole process highly unintuitive.
Con Poor performance
UI response is too slow.
Pro Refactoring works great
Renaming a class or a variable across all your project works well; people have been using Eclipse CDT because of the missing "refactor C++" on Xcode.
Pro Large selection of plug-ins
Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plug-ins.
Con Plug-ins can be unstable
Though there are plenty of plug-ins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plug-ins from multiple sources.
Pro Excellent syntax highlighting
Kdevelop has very smart syntax and semantic syntax highlighting.
Know any negative aspects of this option?
Pro Visual Studio UI
Visual Studio set the IDE standard for most of the '90s. Although it has languished somewhat and some embarrassing UI defects remain in the Windows version, we can hope that Microsoft will deliver a fairly well-organized IDE for the Mac.
Con Currently doesn't support C++
As of now, Visual Studio for Mac only supports .NET, C#, and F#.
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