What are the best IDEs for C++ on Windows?

Has a simple interface. See More

Top Pro

Easy for beginners

Top Con

It's hard to make the code readable

Due to the problems with indention, it's hard to make the code look nice. See More

Braxston Rousell's Experience

Awesome IDE. Extremely Faster than most others. See More

Top Pro

Free/Libre/Open source

Top Con

Absence of smart Debugger

When trying to debug a pointer to a struct/class, instead of showing the contents of the object, the pointer points to, the debugger simply shows the hex address, which isn't helpful at all. See More

SplendidCoatlicue's Experience

The best for C/C++ programming. See More

Top Pro

Faster than Visual Studio

Faster rebuild and debug process. See More

Top Con

Does not support font anti-aliasing

It is the 17th version and still it doesn't support font anti-aliasing on Windows. See More

MightyGaia's Experience

Works well and is simple to use. See More

Top Pro

Syntax highlighting, customizable and extensible

It’s an open source, cross-platform and a free C/C++ IDE. See More

ProudFodbgen's Experience

Installed it on Linux Mint. First thing, loaded their own gtk+ example program. Tried to compile and run it. Failed.It kept saying I hadn't compiled it- did I want to compile it? Yes. Then it would immediately ask again, even before it tried to compile it. Yes again. . I am quite sure g++ etc etc was present on my machine. Really, what was happening should not have been happening. Gave up after install-uninstall-reinstall a few times. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform

Code::Blocks is available for both Windows and Linux, allowing you to use the same IDE across both OSes if you use different machines. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Easy to pick up, for example much easier to include libraries. See More

Top Pro

Free/Libre/Open Source

Top Pro

Good theme support

Good support for different system themes on Linux. See More

Top Pro

Header files scanner

Scanns header files very fast. See More

Top Pro

Debugger multi-threading support

The debugger supports multi-threaded processes for faster debugging. See More

Horribly slow on low-end machines due to bulky size, they should modularize it instead of trying to do everything. See More

score 196 · Answer 2

Microsoft Visual Studio

Top Con

Sluggish

Top Pro

Free Community Edition

The Community Edition of Visual Studios and the Unity add-on can be downloaded and used free of charge. See More

CompassionateMithras's Experience

It's easiest and Intel Parallel XE ,System studio also supported See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac OS X

License:Proprietary

The most basic Visual Studio installation will take up 5GB of disk space. See More

Top Con

It's very large

Top Pro

IntelliSense

IntelliSense is the general term for a number of features: List Members, Parameter Info, Quick Info, and Complete Word. These features help you to learn more about the code you are using, keep track of the parameters you are typing, and add calls to properties and methods with only a few keystrokes. See More

SupportiveEgeria's Experience

Bulky, non intuitive, slow. Really bad work if we compare with previous work, like VS6 -VS2008 See More

Top Con

Non native window frame

IDE main window lacks standard window frame (titlebar/borders) - a custom solution is in use where custom titlebar contains numerous application-specific controls. This results in inconsistent UX and can also be problematic when you're using shell replacements or other various window-management software (such as bbLean). See More

Top Pro

One of the few bearable C++ debuggers available

CromulentXpiacoc's Experience

fast and reliable See More

Top Pro

There's a huge library of plugins

Visual Studio has a massive library of plugins to choose from. See More

CapableMeskhenet's Experience

Has most information on learning See More

Top Pro

Extensions

Top Pro

Modern language support

The recently released 15.7 branch provides competitive modern language support. See More

Top Pro

Product backlog

In agile development teams, one really needs features such as product backlogs where you can assign features to team mates and track their progress on them. VS provides a web based interface for you to track your team's complete progress on the project. See More

Top Pro

GitHub integration

Makes production faster especially if git is used. One can see changed files at the go and commit (with push possibility) when ever one so desires. See More

Top Pro

More modular installer

Visual Studio 2017 supports a much more modern and modular installer. You no longer have to install many gigabytes of stuff you don't need. Everything is broken down into much smaller pieces and it's much more apparent which pieces you need. See More

Top Pro

Embedded cloud storage

Your Visual Studio Online account gives you a place to store your code, backlog, and other project data with no servers to deploy, configure, or manage. See More

Top Pro

Friendly UI

Top Pro

Comes with a Windows framework

Clion works on Windows, Linux and OSX. See More

score 68 · Answer 3

CLion

Top Pro

Cross platform

Top Con

Proprietary

Clion is proprietary software which costs $199/1st year for a business license or $89/1st year for an individual license. See More

SharpArke's Experience

It's part of the 4 Cs for c++: Clang, Cmake, Clion And Conan See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

License:Proprietary

CLion has an intelligent autocompletion engine that tries to predict the symbol you are typing based on your previous history and the context in which it's being typed. See More

Top Pro

Intelligent code completion

Top Con

Rarely freezes in random moments for 1-2 seconds

ProudFodbgen's Experience

I recommend this IF you're willing to use CMake or learn it because you can't use it with just good old gnu make. I could not get my head around CMake, so I am on the hunt for another C IDE, even though I have paid for a full subscription with Jetbrains :( See More

Top Pro

Very fast

IntelliJ code completion is really fast. See More

Top Con

Only supports CMake

Top Pro

Free licence for students and teachers

Top Con

Very show updating indicates when creating/opening project

CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 license, with an exception for plugins. See More

score 44 · Answer 4

CodeLite

Top Pro

Free, open source

Top Con

Bland UI

The UI is fairly boring and has limited customization options. There is a dark theme available, however it only applies to the editor. The surrounding windows and borders remain light. You can see a collection of screenshots here. See More

PoliteNodens's Experience

Excellent code completion for c++11 See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

License:GPL

Top Pro

Modest memory footprint

CodeLite takes up about 50MB when loaded into memory with a workspace opened. See More

Top Pro

Fast and stable IDE

Codelite is the fastest IDE I tried, to load heavy projets (ten of thousand files) on a network database, and never crash See More

Top Pro

File Explorer-like workspace view

The workspace view, unlike other IDEs, is a reflection of the actual directory structure on the file system (with user filters applied). See More

Top Pro

A lot of useful plugins

CppCheck, DiffTool, Git, MemCheck (Valgrind support, Linux-only), SVN, and many other plugins extend the IDE functionality greatly! See More

Top Pro

Very capable code completion

Code completion works well and suggestions are nicely displayed with brief documentation (if code is documented doxygen-style). See More

Top Pro

A plug-able C/C++ IDE with many built-in plugins

Includes Git, Svn, Clang, ClangFormat, GCC, Valgrind, Code Completion and much more. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

CodeLite is available for the following OSs: Windows XP SP3, 7, and 8, Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora / OpenSUSE, ArchLinux, OSX 10.8/9, FreeBSD. See More

Top Pro

Rapid development cycle

CodeLite is actively developed with activity almost daily on Github. See More

Top Pro

Open source and free

CodeLite is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Easy to find installed compilers

The search for the installed compilers is quick, and it usually yields useful results on the very first atempt. See More

Though basic features like syntax checking, autocompletion, and file management are all available out of the box or with minimal configuration, this is not obvious to new users, who might get intimidated or assume they need to install complex plugins just so they can have this functionality. Other features new users might expect to find embedded in Vim, such as debugging, instead follow a UNIX-style model where they are called as external programs, the output of which might then be parsed by Vim so it can display results. Users not familiar with this paradigm will likely fault Vim for lacking those features as well. See More

score 54 · Answer 5

Vim

Top Con

Poor feature discoverability

Top Pro

A lightweight IDE with real support for all languages that promotes fast coding and doesn't get in your way

Name a programming language and there's a ton of plugins extending its support for that specific language. See More

DependableIakhsari's Experience

Yeah, after using Vim for a few months, I switched back to classical IDE. You will write your code very fast, but you won't have all the indications a real IDE would give. Even with all the plugins you'll download. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License:Vim License

Extension language:Vim

Price:0

Top Con

Difficult learning curve

You'll spend a lot of time learning all the commands and modes supported in Vim. You'll then spend more time tuning settings to your needs. Although once it's tuned to your needs, you can take your .vimrc to any machine you need and have the same experience across all your computers. See More

Top Pro

Easy to extend its features by adding specific plugins

http://vimawesome.com/ See More

PopularPilnitis's Experience

Difficult to use. Need to remember obscure key presses to do basic things. Easy to lose work by pressing the wrong key combination. See More

Top Con

Not actually an IDE, no built in compiler or debugger

You'll have to go outside of the program to do these things, or install and configure a plugin. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight and multi-platform

You can use vim on any OS and get the same consistent and easy workflow and experience. See More

Top Con

User must remember commands instead of point at them in a menu

Top Pro

Once you learn Vim it's forever

Never have to depend on Text Editors ever again and you can program, compile, then execute from the terminal itself. Very handy even in Windows. See More

Top Con

No refactoring support

Top Pro

Great productivity

Vim's keyset is mainly restricted to the alphanumeric keys and the escape key. This is an enduring relic of its teletype heritage, but has the effect of making most of Vim's functionality accessible without frequent awkward finger reaches. See More

Top Con

Difficult to copy, paste, and delete

Top Pro

Extremely portable

Vi/vim exists on almost all Unix-like platforms. It's the de-facto Unix editor and is easily installed on Windows. All you need to make it work is a text-based connection, so it works well for remote machines with slow connections, or when you're too lazy to set up a VNC/Remote Desktop connection. See More

Top Con

High effort to customize

Top Pro

Works in terminal over SSH

Unlike other editors such as Sublime Text, Vim is a command line editor and hence can be used in remote development environments like Chromebooks via SSH. See More

Top Con

Consume brain energy for editing that should be used for logic

Text editing in vim is awesome, but it requires thinking about combination of commands. In other editors, you don't have to think about how to delete this part of code. You just think about how to implement a feature, what is a good design for this code. Even after you get used to using vim, it still requires your brain for editing. See More

Top Con

Setting up code completions, linting, etc is annoying with Vimscript

Top Con

Foreign keyboards have a hard time on Vim out of the box

A lot of frequently-used keybinds are way harder to access on foreign keyboards because they use different layouts. For example, Germans use the QWERTZ layout, while French use the AZERTY. See More

Top Con

Doesn't play nice with the system cut/paste mechanisms

This can be worked around if you disable mouse for insert mode. You can then right-click your terminal and use paste like you would anywhere else in a terminal. See More

Top Con

Unintuitive mode switching

Top Con

Poor support for external tooling

Many plugins depend on optional Python and Lua features, which may or may not be included in whatever binaries are available for your system. And without platform-specific hacks, it is difficult for plugins to operate in the background or use external tooling. See More

Top Con

Works poorly out of the box with right-to-left

Pricey for commercial usage. See More

score 26 · Answer 6

Qt Creator

Top Con

Pricey

Top Pro

Fast and fully keyboard-navigatable

Responsive UI, no need to use the mouse for the power users. See More

SociableChalchiuhtotolin's Experience

Easy code navigation, quicker then MSVC, convenient integration with CMake See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Code Templates:Yes

Integrated Debugger:Yes

When trying to debug a pointer to a struct/class, instead of showing the contents of the object, the pointer points to, the debugger simply shows the hex address, which isn't helpful at all. See More

Top Con

Absence of smart Debugger

Top Pro

Very responsive when compared to similar software

Top Con

Qt Focused

Qt Creator is focused on being an IDE for Qt, as a general purpose IDE it performs quite well, but there are areas which are lacking such as project file support (support for generic/CMake projects lags behind Qt projects). See More

Top Pro

Integrates well with non-IDE workflows

Qt Creator uses normal .pro-files, CMakeLists.txt, Makefiles.am, etc. for its projects and rarely needs special configuration for projects. Projects can be built on the command line as usual. See More

Top Pro

Supports CMake

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Best compatibility with c++ modern syntax

Top Pro

Build in Qt GUI editor

Allows for the creation of a window based ui in a graphical editor, no code required to build the ui. See More

Top Pro

Much space dedicated to the code

Small and beautiful UI, almost all the space is dedicated to the text with hardly and toolbars. Can actually be used on a 1024x768 pixel screen. See More

For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well. See More

score 26 · Answer 7

Visual Studio Code

Top Pro

Great performance

Top Con

Memory hog

Allegedly, VS Code is "lightweight". Yet, running multiple instances of it at once, you may get many "out of memory" messages from Windows despite 16 GB RAM. (While of course also running other things. The point is the comparison with some other IDEs/editors where running them alongside the same number of other applications doesn't cause Windows to run out of memory) See More

KnowledgeableNyame's Experience

One of the best ide. Completely customizable and easy to use. The complete package for a professional programmer. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

License:MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Code Templates:Yes

There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily. See More

Top Pro

Updated frequently

Top Con

Not an IDE

Debugging and compiling require a plugin that may not work either with CMake or GCC. See More

TirelessShimegi's Experience

It lacks "find usages" functionality which is extremely important when you work with a new and large codebase. See More

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript. See More

Top Con

Project search limits results

Because file search is so slow your results are limited in order to simulate a faster search. See More

Top Pro

Extendable through plug-ins

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plug-ins available to extend its functionality. See More

Top Pro

JavaScript IntelliSense support

JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code. See More

Top Pro

Integrated terminal

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor. Shift+~ is a handy hotkey to toggle the integrated terminal. See More

Top Pro

Ready to use out of the box

You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered. See More

Top Pro

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

Top Pro

Fast and powerful

VS-Code has the speed of Sublime and the power of WebStorm. Perhaps this is the best software that Microsoft has ever created. See More

Top Pro

ESLint integration

ESLint integrates great. You can define your rules trough .eslintrc.* as usual and vs code will autofix your code on save. So your code is always in style. See More

Top Pro

Active development

It's really nice to see how the code editor evolves. Every month there is a new version with great communication of new features and changes. See More

Top Pro

Huge community behind it

The ease of getting assistance and finding tutorials is increasing as the community grows. See More

Top Pro

High fidelity C# plugin

The Omnisharp plugin is very powerful providing full sln, csproj, and project.json support. See More

Top Pro

It has gotten really good

All it takes is one stop for all the features many people need. See More

Top Pro

Embedded Git control

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. See More

Top Pro

TypeScript integration

There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript. See More

The Windows framework, called VCL, wraps native WinAPI controls. It's far more powerful than something like MFC, including its visual design and the library of available first- and third-party controls. See More

score 37 · Answer 8

C++Builder

Top Pro

Windows UI framework

Top Con

Too focused on adding IDE features developers don't want

PeterZ's Experience

I huse c ++ builder for a very long time See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Android

Cross Platform:Yes

Top Pro

Free community edition

Features are the same as Professional Edition. See More

Top Con

IDE has long lasting bugs that Embarcadero won't fix

Top Pro

Cross-platform UI framework

FireMonkey (FMX) is a cross-platform UI framework, GPU-accelerated, supporting native controls on some platforms, and native feel everywhere else. See More

Top Con

Expensive

€1,719.00+ (or $1971.61+) (on 01/2019). See More

Top Pro

Drag and Drop Functionality

C++Builder allows. you to drag and drop components on the design form which makes the development process simple. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform targeting

Can build targeting Windows, iOS, macOS, and Android. See More

Top Pro

Clang-based compilers

The Netbeans IDE is known to take a large memory as compared to other lighter IDE's available in the market. See More

score 25 · Answer 9

Netbeans IDE

Top Con

Slow on windows

Top Pro

Free, open source and cross-platform

NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can therefore run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS. Being open source means that developers can contribute changes to the code to have the IDE better serve them. See More

TirelessShimegi's Experience

I've tried many IDEs for C++ but this beats all of them in terms of usability. It has the best code completion mechanism, which works for modern C++ (>= C++11). This is a great tool for getting familiar with a new source base. I've managed to use it with the Linux kernel source code (some subsystems of course) without any issues. Thanks to the navigation facilities (find usages, macro expansion, call graphs) you can read and learn about your codebase faster. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD

Top Pro

Excellent error catcher

ProudFodbgen's Experience

even though my browser would connect to their website, it would never show me the option to add C/C++ to the IDE. It does not download with C/C++ already installed, it's a plugin you have to go get. Unfortunately, their fetch mechanism failed. See More

Top Pro

Stable

Top Pro

Good refactoring

Top Pro

Cross-platform

NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can, therefore, run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS. See More

Top 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-complete your code (variable names / function references / library functions / classes / ids) wherever possible, so you can code at speed. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

Customizable theme

Top Pro

Easy to learn

Very easy to learn, unlike e.g. Eclipse (which is probably the most flexible). See More

Top Pro

Multiple revision control system integration

Top Pro

Funtionality can be extend with community plugins

Cevelop helps you to upgrade your code to take advantage of new features such as initializer lists, smart pointers, and more. See More

score 9 · Answer 10

Cevelop

Top Pro

Helps writing C++11 and C++14

IndependentCupid's Experience

pretty fast and responsive, even though it's a java application big memory footprint (java 1GB, cevelop IDE 150 MB) good code completion many refactoring options, tried only refactoring yet. Was ok. helpful class creator easy providing additional include and link options only in "managed c++ projects" new code files are automatically included by the build command nice: different "perspectives" for editing and debugging ...and much more... --- give it a try! See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, OS X

Dependencies among C++ header files can become quite complex and get out of control. Includator analyzes the dependency hierarchy in C++ projects and optimizes them if necessary. Such cleanup keeps C++ header files tidy and reduces compile time. See More

Top Pro

Include Analysis and Optimization

Top Pro

Template Visualisation

Visually explore function- and class-templates: The Template Information View displays detailed template information and lets you easily browse through instantiation levels. See More

Top Pro

Cross Platform

Cevelop extends Eclipse CDT See More

The latest release is from 2015. See More

score 32 · Answer 11

Dev C++

Top Con

Not in active development

Top Pro

It's simple and easy to use

Doesn't require more storage. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

License:GPL

You can download and use the IDE completely for free. See More

Top Pro

It's free and open source

Emacs is great for everything. See More

score 15 · Answer 12

Orwell Dev-C++

score 6 · Answer 13

Emacs

Top Pro

Versatile

Specs

Platforms:Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License:GPL-3.0-or-later

Error Markup:Yes

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles mean that you never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use. See More

Top Pro

Gnus

Top Pro

Helm plugin adds even more power to Emacs

Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin. See More

Top Pro

GTK+ widgets support

Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things. See More

Top Pro

Support multi-line editing, multiple frame, powerful paren, crazy jumping style

Review the "Emacs Rocks" video. See More

Top Pro

Provides org-mode

Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list. See More

Top Pro

Visual selection and text objects with Evil

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others. See More

Top Pro

Lisp customizations

With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs. See More

Top Pro

Rectangular cut and paste

Emacs can select rectangularly. See More

Top Pro

Vi keybindings through Evil mode

Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe. See More

Top Pro

Ubiquity

Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files. See More

Top Pro

Works in terminal or as a GUI application

You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface. See More

Top Pro

Mini buffer

You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer. See More

Top Pro

Keyboard-focused, mouse-free editing

Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. While true, I often find the mouse and menus handy for those lesser-used commands. An aide-memoir. See More

Top Pro

Great documentation

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties. See More

Top Pro

Self documenting

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t. See More

Top Pro

Free

Licensed under GNU GPL. See More

Top Pro

Total customizability

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza). See More

Top Pro

It's also an IDE

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed. See More

Kdevelop has very smart syntax and semantic syntax highlighting. See More

score 10 · Answer 14

KDevelop

Top Pro

Excellent syntax highlighting

Top Con

Only preliminary support for Windows

TirelessShimegi's Experience

Lightweight, fast and the code completion works quite well compared to other heavy IDEs/ See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, BSD

Top Con

Works with no problems only on Linux

KDevelop is an IDE for the KDE platform. Even though it's cross-platform, it's mostly targeted at Linux systems and the versions for other operating systems are highly experimental. See More

Eclipse runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. See More

score 14 · Answer 15

Eclipse CDT

Top Pro

Free and cross-platform

Top Con

Slow and heavy weight

PopularPilnitis's Experience

Great IDE. Good debugger. Very good code completion. Good hover info. Good code searching. Needs a lot of memory. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, Windows, MacOS X

License:EPL (Open Source)

Auto Complete:yes

Code Templates:Yes

Very intuitive code completion that understands C++. See More

Top Pro

Great code completion

Top Con

Ugly and poorly designed UI

Top Pro

Good project-wide and workspace-wide code searching

Easy to find (and replace) every occurrence of a term project-wide or across multiple projects. Regular expressions search (and replace) too. See More

Top Con

Plugins can be unstable

Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable. See More

Top Con

Plugins can be unstable

Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources. See More

Top Pro

Large selection of plugins

Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins. See More

Top Pro

Very customizable interface

You can drag and drop the various windows to where you want them or make them pop-up-able so they stay out of your way. See More

Top Pro

Good font rendering

Because Eclipse is based on SWT, it uses the native font rendering and thus looks better than other IDEs on some Linux systems, where the Java font rendering is not optimal. See More

Top Pro

Nice mouse hover assist during debugging

You can view values of variables on mouse hover during debugging. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Eclipse is an open source project and free to use. See More

Top Pro

Nice Mouse Hover assist during debugging

View values of variables on mouse hover during debugging. See More

Ultimate++ is a cross-platform development framework with IDE that radically reduces code complexity for typical desktop applications. See More

score 5 · Answer 16

SlickEdit

Top Pro

Great symbol analysis

score 1 · Answer 17

Ultimate++

Top Pro

Free

RickZeeland's Experience

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Code analyzer

Top Pro

Documentation and help tool

Top Pro

Visual designer

Top Pro

Easy to learn

The whole framework is easy to learn thanks to multiple tutorials. See More

Fast startup, quickly opens files, fast search in files, etc.. See More

score 1 · Answer 18

EDX

Top Pro

Very fast

Top Con

Windows only

Only supports Windows for now. See More

Top Pro

Supports CMake/XMake projects

You can open CMake/XMake projects directly with EDX. See More

Top Pro

Easy to integrate with MSYS2 packages

It's easy to integrate with MSYS2 packages, even if you have no MSYS2 installed EDX can download/update/install/setup MSYS2 packages automatically See More

Top Pro

One-click remote development

You can build/debug remotely with one click. What you shoud do is just add your remote toolset. See More

Git, SFTP, Subversion, and many more plugins are fully supported in CodeLite IDE. See More

score 1 · Answer 19

CodeLite IDE

Top Pro

Extensive plugin support

Top Pro

Modest memory footprint

CodeLite takes up about 50 MB when loaded into memory with a workspace opened. See More

Top Pro

Open source and free

CodeLite is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub. See More