Favorite IDE?

[lfnunley]

So I was wondering, what is your favorite IDE? I personally use code::blocks and love it to death, but my friend uses Dev c++ (I think it's outdated).

[GbX36Up4]

Dev-cpp = EPICNESS *rivalry music starts playing* *throws Ifnunley the death stare*

[Zhuge]

http://cplusplus.com/forum/articles/36896/
Personally, MS Visual Studio.

[khamara]

this is such an amusing question and brings back memories. The place where I used to work, the veterans (those with long beards, a walking stick, bald patch...only joking) would swear that EMACS is all you need.

[ultifinitus]

Notepad. I have my assistant look up every single command I type and translate it into machine code. It's the only way to code.

[GbX36Up4]

Your assistant is probably your mom.

[Mythios]

@logart - ...

Visual Studio 2K10 :)

[ultifinitus]

She works quite cheaply. And she get's along with your mom when she comes over. It's like a play date. Of course I hear all the embarrassing stories. Remember that time you had that _{embarrassing experience with the doll?} *looks around to see if anyone heard.

[xander333]

Code::Blocks, like a lot of other members on this board, it seems!

[zb0S216C]

My paperback notepad. I write the code on a piece of paper( black ink only ), then scan the page into the computer, and determine each character based on the pixels of the page using some software. I just can't seem to figure out why it won't compile most of the time. Still, I use Visual C++ Express 2010 now though.

_Wazzak

[Cheraphy]

There are people who use IDEs?

I kid I kid, My favorite IDE is different on each platform. In linux I almost never take on projects large enough to warrant an IDE so it's usually a combination of gedit or nano and gnu's compiler set. When I need an IDE in windows I use VS2010. And when I need an IDE on OSX it's xcode.

[z05DSL3A]

XCode 4 (still learning my way round it)

Edit:
My working life is spent in Visual Studio, the 'best for me' on Windows.

[Cheraphy]

@Grey Wolf,

Do you ever do any cross compilation from OS X? If you do I'd like to know what tools you use for that.

[anonymous23323124]

MS Visual Studio for experimentation; MS V++ Express for projects which may be distributed (VS is under student license...)

Code::Blocks under Ubuntu and for my video tutorials as it's cross platform.

[z05DSL3A]

Do you ever do any cross compilation from OS X?

At the moment I don't (other than started tinkering with iOS stuff in XCode).

I might be looking into ARM stuff later in the year. The Raspberry Pi Foundation^* are planning to manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer. This looks like the perfect platform to get back to my robot OS design.

* http://www.raspberrypi.org/

[Cheraphy]

erm Robot OS? I'm not quite sure I follow. Then again I've done no tinkering with robots so I don't really know how they work on a software level.

[z05DSL3A]

erm Robot OS?

I have had a long term goal to make a Robot (or several). The aim for the OS would be that of a distributed realtime OS geared towards the needs on a robot. Doing things with robotics/embedded systems is still quite expensive in the UK and as a result the project spends most of it's time stalled.

[anonymous23323124]

quite expensive in the UK

As in getting the hardware?

[S6k9GNh0]

My favorite IDE would have to be a mix of Vim and Cmake (for build system, which coincidentally needs GNU make). Unfortunately though, I find myself on Windows for one reason or another and neither of those play well with Window (mainly since Windows doesn't have any well-featured command shell emulators and Cmake has trouble finding packages).

[z05DSL3A]

As in getting the hardware?

Yes. :0(

The last time I looked for a smallish 4WD Chassis to build a garden rover it was over £200. The last SBC I had cost me £250, I was not happy when the smoke got out.

I get the impression that doing robotics/Mechatronics elsewhere in the world is a lot cheaper.