When comparing Eclipse CDT vs Gnome Builder, the Slant community recommends Eclipse CDT for most people. In the question“What are the best IDEs for C++ on UNIX-like systems?” Eclipse CDT is ranked 16th while Gnome Builder is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Eclipse CDT is:
View values of variables on mouse hover during debugging.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Nice Mouse Hover assist during debugging
View values of variables on mouse hover during debugging.
Pro Free and open source
Eclipse is an open source project and free to use.
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.
Pro Highly customizable
Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable.
Pro Macro definition browser
Pro Great language support (for linux based projects)
Python, C, Java, Javascript, Go, Vala, C++, and many more.
Pro Integrates nicely into the GNOME Desktop Environment
Client-side decorations, good use of widgets.
Pro Lovely find and replace tool with great REGEX support
Shows a live feedback of what matches the pattern/criteria entered.
Pro Terminal built in
Fully featured terminal is packaged.
Pro Autocomplete
Fast autocomplete.
Pro Supports versioning (git)
Shows diff indication and has branch integration too.
Pro Integrated debugging
Pro Integrated system-wide profiler for improving software performance
Pro Templating
Good templates available to build applications, even to build gnome applications.
Pro Tiling Editor capability
Supports Tiling.
Pro Extendable through plugins
Cons
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.
Con UI can be confusing
There's an overly abundant presence of menus, this forces you to constantly click around the different menu structures.
Con No project management
Because it is still in early development there are little project management functionalities.