Best/Worst C++ IDE you have ever used?

• YouCompleteMe

  70 25,499 8.0 Python

  A code-completion engine for Vim

  

  Best: any text editor supporting integration with `clangd`. I use neovim with builtin LSP, before it was neovim/vim + YouCompleteMe.

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• coc.nvim

  321 24,515 9.1 TypeScript

  Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

  

  use plugins. I prefer coc.nvim paired with coc-clangd Clangd is what CLion uses under-the-hood for a lot of its autocomplete/linting/etc., so this pair gets you fairly close. (you miss out on CLion's proprietary additions and AI completion, but for quick work or places CLion is too heavy, its great)

• coc-clangd

  12 767 7.8 TypeScript

  clangd extension for coc.nvim

  

  use plugins. I prefer coc.nvim paired with coc-clangd Clangd is what CLion uses under-the-hood for a lot of its autocomplete/linting/etc., so this pair gets you fairly close. (you miss out on CLion's proprietary additions and AI completion, but for quick work or places CLion is too heavy, its great)

• emacs-c-ide-demo

  1 271 10.0 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs setup for C/C++ with Helm describe here: http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html

  Somehow I always end up back on emacs. Someone has an IDE demo git thingy that adds a fair bit of functionality if you like that sort of thing (https://github.com/tuhdo/emacs-c-ide-demo). Even with all that on it still feels more responsive than the GUI IDEs I've tried. I prefer to do a lot of stuff (compiling, debugging et al) via the command line, though. It's actually pretty nice once you add the vi style paren matching from "Emulation of the vi % command" on https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NavigatingParentheses. Just drop the function and global-set-key into the init.el in that github repo.

• nvim-lspconfig

  526 10,879 9.7 Lua

  Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

  

  Or get the latest neovim with its built-in LSP client and an autocompletion plugin (I use nvim-cmp).

• watcom-vscode

  2 20 3.4 PowerShell

  A basic project template for using Watcom C/C++ tools with Visual Studio Code

  I have a github project for C++ integration on VSCode with OpenWatcom, and it works at least better than the standard Watcom IDE

• Buck

  14 8,564 3.9 Java

  Discontinued A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.

  

  Didn't know it was python based. Their github repo shows 90% of the code is java, only 2% is python. Regardless, C++ build systems should be written by people who are familiar with C++ and the specific problems they need to solve. That means the build system should be written in C++ or C and not in java, lua, or python. I certainly do not want to install python just to build my C++ programs in a CI environment, it just increases my build complexity and attack surface

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