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Newbee: what is the codeblocks future?

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--- Quote from: krix on October 19, 2012, 02:07:41 pm ---And how do you decide what CB should NOT do, with that approach?

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There is not such thing that should not be done by C::B. C::B is an IDE, so it should do everything! :)
More seriously, most of the major changes are discussed by the active developers.

As Morten said your method of evaluating IDEs is pretty broken/flawed. You're not choosing an SDK/library to care for the future,
because changing the IDE doesn't cause to many changes to a project. And if you really care for this you'll make your
project IDE agnostic...

ouch:
Well Codeblocks has been around for quite awhile now I can't find when it actually started but the last reference I could find was 2006. I started using codeblocks after microsoft dropped support for VS v6.0. I was pretty peeved at MS because I spent hundreds on that thing only to be unable to use it because of lack of updates. I also tried and liked linux around that time so I wanted an IDE that was crossplatform, capable of using more than one compiler, and didn't move my cursor to where I didn't want it to go while typing. (it's amazing how hard that last one is to find.)

Codeblocks fit the bill and I have been using it ever since. The thing that was the hardest transition from msvs v6 for me was the way the compiler/linker settings are layed out in codeblocks. I remember sitting there trying to figure it out and I was like "Where is x feature? Oh there it is, Why would you put that there instead of over here damn it!" But as I used it more it started to all make sense. I can't see any of the compiler/linker settings being anywhere else now days.

But I use codeblocks at work myself. I mostly do boring database and reporting stuff at work, but I dabble with 3d engines (mostly ogre now days) and other things at home. But there isn't anything I've needed over the years that codeblocks couldn't do. I also dual boot linux and win 7 at home and I can open my projects in either os on any of my computers and hit the build button and everything just works even if my libraries are in different locations on each computer in each os.

If you ask people that have tried codeblocks and didn't like it. Most of them say it's because they couldn't figure out the compiler/linker settings, not that it didn't support the features they needed. Well, some complain of the debugger too but I think that has been remedied with the new debugger plugin.

I would definitely give codeblocks a try, it's not like it costs you anything... But try the latest nightly built version as the last release version is really outdated.

If you don't like codeblocks you could also try codelite. I like that IDE too but codeblocks has more overall features.

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