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User forums => General (but related to Code::Blocks) => Topic started by: kinddavid on July 28, 2015, 04:11:44 am
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I find VS far superior to Code::Blocks from my recent experience. CB doesn't even have compile as you go feature so that you can see while writing what errors you have. What am I missing here?
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Not everybody has the amount of development cash that Microsoft has to throw at a product. CodeBlocks does its job rather well for me. It worked out of the box after extracting a mere 56MB worth of files. Visual Studio could never dream to be so lightweight.
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CB doesn't even have compile as you go feature so that you can see while writing what errors you have.
Not entirely true: Clang based CC (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,18785.msg129301.html#msg129301). However... that is still highly experimental, and I wish I had time to work on stabilizing it. It has been a while since I was able to do anything there :( .
C::B is light while supporting a decent set of IDE features, and if you remove all the plugins you do not use (which for me, is often over half), startup is insanely fast.
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@alpha: Your plugin should have a higher priority than CB's own CC plugin imo as the latter is getting slower and laggy for me when used on huge projects (like CB). I think the main problem with yours is that it locks CB during parsing (I think) and apart from that I'm getting an overflow assertion which I couldn't figure out why. I can provide patches for simple things like color configuration and other simple things if you're interested in.
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I think the main problem with yours is that it locks CB during parsing (I think) [...]
Yes. I made several attempts to use cbThreadPool, but I must not be understanding it properly since they all resulted in either instant crash or deadlock. Hopefully I will be able to give a try at plain wxThreads soon.
I can provide patches for simple things like color configuration and other simple things if you're interested in.
Pull requests always welcome; I will review as quickly as able.