macOS C++ programming software for mac.

ekiro said:

You looking for something with a built in compiler?

I would recommend using Sublime 2 or another robust, light weight editor. Then save your code on a Linux box to compile it on.

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Don't get my wrong, I love Sublime, but it wastes so much time to discover you have trivial syntax errors like a missing semicolon or mismatched parenthesis only during compile on another computer, rather than just using an IDE that tells you about it the moment you make the mistake.

ArtOfWarfare said:

Don't get my wrong, I love Sublime, but it wastes so much time to discover you have trivial syntax errors like a missing semicolon or mismatched parenthesis only during compile on another computer, rather than just using an IDE that tells you about it the moment you make the mistake.

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Let me know if you find a light-weight, robust editor. Eclipse doesn't count.

ekiro said:

Let me know if you find a light-weight, robust editor. Eclipse doesn't count.

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Eclipse is total garbage. I like Xcode. I've heard JetBrains makes good IDEs.

ekiro said:

Let me know if you find a light-weight, robust editor. Eclipse doesn't count.

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Vim .

Cromulent said:

Vim .

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With a GUI!

ArtOfWarfare said:

Eclipse is total garbage. I like Xcode. I've heard JetBrains makes good IDEs.

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THANK YOU!

I don't know why so many people like Eclipse. I hate it. I'd use Visual Studio over Eclipse and I don't care for Visual Studio.

chrono1081 said:

THANK YOU!

I don't know why so many people like Eclipse. I hate it. I'd use Visual Studio over Eclipse and I don't care for Visual Studio.

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I think there's something wrong with our configurations. At work, people always notice how painfully slow Eclipse behaves on my computer relative to theirs. We all have comparable machines running basically the same programs... yet there's something that causes Eclipse on my computer to eat RAM and CPU like nothing else.

But besides the abysmal performance, I just don't like the interface. I don't understand the tabs + sidebar approach a lot of programs use... what do tabs offer that the sidebar doesn't?

ekiro said:

You looking for something with a built in compiler?

I would recommend using Sublime 2 or another robust, light weight editor. Then save your code on a Linux box to compile it on.

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The Linux recommendation makes no sense. Is he suppose to cross compile to a OS X binary on a Linux box, why? Is the target Linux? I don't think so, nothing in the original post mentioned it.

ekiro said:

With a GUI!

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There's MacVim. Other editors worth mentioning, TextWrangler and Textmate.

Don't use Eclipse...

If you want Vim with a user interface, you should take a look at Chocolat.
They have a Vim mode. (apart from that I also like the app)

chrono1081 said:

THANK YOU!

I don't know why so many people like Eclipse. I hate it. I'd use Visual Studio over Eclipse and I don't care for Visual Studio.

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I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but what do you dislike about Visual Studio?

thekev said:

I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but what do you dislike about Visual Studio?

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It's so… IT.

You know, how you'd get a two-page document titled "Setting Up Your Visual Studio Environment" with the Company's Tested & IT Department-Approved Configuration™.

*barf*

IT departments love that ****. Programmers don't.

thekev said:

I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but what do you dislike about Visual Studio?

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I just think its a sloppy bloated program. I've used it since Visual Studio 6 and right now at work I hop between Visual Studio 2010 and 2012.

Intellisense is flakey, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, its a coin toss. Same goes for right clicking on a function or class to go to the definition. This rarely works (even after a brand new reimage).

There are also the strange inconsistencies like if I am creating a site using html + asp.net sometimes the site will open fine, other times it won't, even if the code has never changed (I already ruled out a computer issue since it happens with the same project on multiple machines).

It just feels like a sloppy program even after all these years.

TFS works great though.

EDIT: As the years go buy I see Xcode get more awesome, and Visual Studio get more bloated :/

ArtOfWarfare said:

Eclipse is total garbage. I like Xcode. I've heard JetBrains makes good IDEs.

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JetBrains makes wonderful IDEs, at least for Java.. I vastly prefer IDEA to Eclipse, I haven't used AppCode(their Objective-C/C++ IDE), but it may be worth a look.
http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/index.html

d.ma said:

JetBrains makes wonderful IDEs, at least for Java.. I vastly prefer IDEA to Eclipse, I haven't used AppCode(their Objective-C/C++ IDE), but it may be worth a look.
http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/index.html

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I'm looking forward to Android Studio (based on IntelliJ IDEA) replacing Eclipse with the ADT plugin. As that is the only reason I'm using Eclipse right now.

chrono1081 said:

EDIT: As the years go buy I see Xcode get more awesome, and Visual Studio get more bloated :/

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I can't respond well on most of that. I don't know Visual Studio that well, but it doesn't seem that bad. I used it in a course I took a while ago. I do prefer Xcode, but I think it's partly that I gravitate toward OSX when I have a choice.

leman said:

Why not Xcode?

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how can i use x code in my mac air

nabasundar said:

how can i use x code in my mac air

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You install it and then you run it? Don't really understand the question.