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I developed for Linux in C++ for about 8 months recently. We did all of our development from Windows with Visual Studio and Visual Assist X because Linux doesn'

I developed for Linux in C++ for about 8 months recently. We did all of our development from Windows with Visual Studio and Visual Assist X because Linux doesn't have anything even close to the same quality (Qt Creator is only about a year away from catching up, and is brilliant software, but isn't there yet). Boost's unit test library has memory leak detection built in, and Intel's performance analysis tools integrated into Visual Studio utterly trounce Valgrind. ICC embarrassingly outperforms GCC. Linux development is still way the hell behind, and if the article's to be believed, apparently blissfully unaware.

biotech 17y ago
This article is about Linux vs. Mac for coding, not Linux vs. Windows.
- blueben 17y ago
  It's also about available suites of tools to support development, not IDEs. Gotta figure someone was going to chime in with the Microsoft IDE love though.
gmartres 17y ago
Another great IDE to keep an eye on is KDevelop, the amount of context aware data that is made easily through it is impressive, see for example: http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from-syntax-highlighting-to-semantic-highlighting/ http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from-... http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/really-rapid-c-development-with-kdevelop4/ http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/really-rapid-c-develo... or http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/code-navigation-in-kdevelop4-meet-the-magic-modifier/ http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/code-navigation-in-kd...