As of 2011: Netbeans 7 or Eclipse Indigo for C++?

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nonot1 picture nonot1 · Jul 6, 2011 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

This is basically a duplicate of: Netbeans or Eclipse for C++?

But, that question as 3+ years old, and a lot has changed since then.

I have a large code base with a custom (but Makefile based) build system. The areas I am specifically wondering about include:

  1. Syntax highlighting
  2. Code navigation.
  3. Code hints.
  4. "ReSharper style" code helpers.
  5. Documentation integration.
  6. Debugger UI and features.

Has anyone had the chance to evaluate both Netbeans and Eclipse?

EDIT: As a followup question, are any of the Netbeans users here concerned with its future given Oracle's recent bad history with "open" efforts? (Open Solaris, MySQL, Open Office)

Thank you

Answer

lurscher picture lurscher · Jul 11, 2011

I cannot comment on eclipse, but on netbeans 7 I will say things that are very important for me and that work fine so far:

  • code completion, go to declarations
  • pkg-config automatic include management for parsing

stuff that sometimes works and sometimes don't

  • find usages, sometimes it might fail to find usages in other open projects
  • debugger sometimes gets confused with unittest-cpp macros and it will not go on the appropiate line

stuff that are not yet working and i care deeply:

  • C++0x syntax highlighting (auto, lambdas, enum class, variadic templates, none of them are recognized by the built-in parser)

stuff that is not quite working but i could not care less:

  • git integration. I enjoy using git from command-line so this is a non-issue

in all, the IDE is very usable. I hope to have a chance to try out latest cdt on Indigo Eclipse, but so far i haven't that much of a real reason to investigate

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