This is 2013. C++11 and C++14 is on us. But why still no dedicated IDE for
C++?
I'm 26 years old. C++ is nearly 35 years old.
I'm really baffled at seeing the evolution of C++ in my 15 years of
programming. I started with Turbo C and its blue screen in late 90's to
vim/emacs in early 2000's. From there on, I have moved to Java, Python and
Ruby. All beautiful languages having extensive set of IDE's which makes
programming easy and fun.
But As for C++. With it's latest iteration already in (C++11) and next
iteration already announced (C++14), Why is it that there's still no
dedicated editor, fully supporting latest standards and libraries along
with other goodies like intellisense and documentation? This is really
ironic, since today, almost every language have extensive toolsets
published and updated periodically.
C++ is not as easy to learn. An IDE will surely go a long way getting new
programmers on-boarding process easy to a great extent.
If anyone knows any reason behind it, please edify us.
Update
First of all, I understand that most seasoned programmers don't care for
IDEs. They spin-off their own toolchains and programming environments with
emacs, gdb, binutils etc. I get that! But this question is to enquire as
to why, when other languages all have extensive IDE and tool support
(Dreamweaver, NetBeans, Eclipse, PyCharm, IntelliJ Idea, Octave, R Studio,
and list goes on) then why C++ doesn't have any.
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