Best IDE platform: Eclipse?

From: gamaron (matt_at_downwithspammers-mengland.net)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:24:12 -0400

Summary
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[The latest in my series of "Best C++ development resource" questions...]

I'm looking for a C++ IDE. If I'm going to learn something, I prefer it
to be free-of-charge (preferably and open-source base), extensible (read:
language independent, plug-in capable, etc), and platform independent. A
broad community of support would be nice, too.

I'm having trouble finding anything that even comes close to Eclipse in
this regard.

Can anyone offer any other suggestions or corroborations?

More Details
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Eclipse's "universal" approach and extensibility seems unsurpassed. There
seem to be so many Eclipse plugins that it's making my head spin.

For example, I want Subversion integration. Sure enough, the Subversion
folks have an Eclipse plugin: http://subclipse.tigris.org/ . Where else
could I even have prayer of getting such extensibility in the world of
"everything is CVS?"

I really only have 2 other IDEs on my radar screen:
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/
* One of the Borland IDEs (a business part of mine uses it, but he's not
married to it--I have yet to check it out).

I have not looked much farther, but would like to see a reference to a
bunch of other links. Eclipse looks so good right now that it's hard to
find motivation to try anything else; HOWEVER, I have yet to significantly
use Eclipse, but the Eclipse-platform-and-CDT (the C++ development tool
plugin) installation was extremely slick.

I'm an ex-C++ programmer/designer that has come back to "the fold" after a
long hiatus doing non-programming work (program management, sales,
marketing, etc).

 (Disclaimer: I realize it's difficult to label something as "best."
Often a solutions choice might heavily depend on the problem to solve and
the problem's associated "environment"--be it technical, political,
personal preference, etc. However, I use the word "best" here mostly to
be concise...and to spark some feedback. ;)

Thanks for any help!
-Matt

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