Integrated Development Environments IDEs IDEs
editing, formatting, analysis, debugging, …
Qt Creator
- quite beginner-friendly
- very responsive UI
- has a VIM emulation mode (could be better, but it works)
JetBrains CLion
- lots of features
- highly customizable, modern UI
- uses CMake as project model, however recent versions can also use traditional Makefiles
- has a VIM emulation mode (could be better, but it works)
- can be a bit slow for very large projects
- can be quite overwhelming for beginners
- free for students
Microsoft Visual Studio
- packed with features; very good autocompletion and code analysis
- large ecosystem of third-party plugins
- project setup and compiler configuration can be a bit overwhelming for beginners
- Make sure to use the latest version, as only newer versions of the compiler are largely conforming to the modern ISO C++ standard(s).
Embarcadero C++Builder
- can be used to create apps for Windows and iOS
- great UI builder
- ships with a clang-based compiler
- ships with Boost and a few other C++ libraries
- mostly complete support for C++17 (no parallel algorithms)
- no C++20 support yet
- uses MSBuild by default, but has command-line supprt for CMake
- free community edition for students/hobbyists that also includes a (very) small business commercial license
- academic license available
Eclipse CDT
- good static analysis & linting
- supports several project build models: fully managed, Makefile-based, …
- setup of compilers can be a bit confusing to beginners
- great VIM emulation with
Vrapper
plugin - can be a bit slow for very large
- UI feels a bit dated
Embarcadero Dev-C++
- quite beginner-friendly, very easy to set up
gccintegration, comes with bundled TDM-gccgprofintegration- low memory consumption
- UI feels a bit dated
Cevelop
- Eclipse-based IDE
- some unique features regarding static analysis and refactoring, like e.g., visualizing template instantiations
- can be a bit slow for very large projects
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