Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to SafariEDX vs Ultimate++
When comparing EDX vs Ultimate++, the Slant community recommends Ultimate++ for most people. In the question“What are the best IDEs for C++ on Windows?” Ultimate++ is ranked 17th while EDX is ranked 18th.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro One-click remote development
You can build/debug remotely with one click.
What you shoud do is just add your remote toolset.
Pro Supports CMake/XMake projects
You can open CMake/XMake projects directly with EDX.
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.
Pro Very fast
Fast startup, quickly opens files, fast search in files, etc..
Pro Visual designer
Pro Simple to use
The whole framework is easy to use.
Pro Documentation and help tool
Pro Code analyzer
Pro Easy to learn
The whole framework is easy to learn thanks to multiple tutorials.
Pro Free
Pro Helpful community
Cons
Con Windows only
Only supports Windows for now.
Con Strictly C++
Con This is an application development framework not simply a GUI toolkit / library API
It is designed for you to develop your whole application using it, not just your GUI. Most people probably are not really looking for that.
