Saturday, 31 August 2013

This is 2013. C++11 and C++14 is on us. But why still no dedicated IDE for C++?

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 blue screen in late 90's to vim in
early 2000's. From there, I have moved on to Java, Python and Ruby. All
beautiful languages having extensive set of IDE's which makes programming
in these languages easy and fun.
But As for C++. With it's latest iteration in C++11 and coming iteration
C++14, There's still no full fledged, dedicated Editor which full support
for latest standard and documentation of libraries and intellisense. This
is really ironic, since today, almost every language have extensive
toolsets.
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.

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