Yet another UNIX user that never used Borland C++, C++ Builder, Zortech C++ debuggers, Visual C++...
> no qualitative difference between C++ toolchains on macOS and Linux,
Where is Instruments, XCode, Cocoa, IO Kit for GNU/Linux?
> no qualitative difference between C++ toolchains on macOS and Linux,
Where is Instruments, XCode, Cocoa, IO Kit for GNU/Linux?
There are reasons for bad code navigation and missing refactoring features: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/09/25/rejuvenat...
Ha I always thought there were actually none.
even find all references is not reliable
Yup that sucks. It's better in VS2015
Project files are a mess.
Yeah it's xml but for the rest it just lists files and options, how is that much of a problem?
There is vcxproj file to define build and vcxproj.filters file for directory structure view in VS (I do not understand a reason for this).
Can be easily solved by ditching the filters file all together and enabling 'All Files' option in Solution Explorer. Unless you insist on having all files listed by extension, which is imo a useless complete mess for enything but small projects.
you can't set hexadecimal format just for one variable
You can, use '<variablename>, h' in the watch window
Does not work for me, because files are located in subdirectories. I see only long list of files from all directories without filters. Maybe it is just bad project structure but I cannot change it. I found plugin for 2015 which is able to generate filters from directory structure, but I have to wait for upgrade.
Not if you select 'Show All Files' in solution explorer, then it shows the entire subdirectory tree.
- graphical debugging of parallel tasks and threads
- displaying data structures graphically with code navigation
- WYSIWYG UIs with tooling like Blend
- GPU debugging
- Code navigation across object files, shared libraries and source code
- Incremental compilation and linking with intermediate representations stored in a database.
- Out of the box representation for all STL data structures and user defined types
Tooling is much more than just a plain old compiler.
What Microsoft compiler doesn't provide in my experience is decent codegen.
Not when compared with the enterprise and ultimate versions. Or with the changes done in VS 2015, improved in the upcoming VS 2017 for incremental building and database storage of symbols.
> Both QT and GTK have GUI builders.
Miles behind of what Blend + XAML allow for.
> NVidia provides a plugin to debug and profile GPU code.
How well does it work with Intel and AMD cards?
> What Microsoft compiler doesn't provide in my experience is decent codegen.
On Windows, among commercial compilers, only ICC generates better code.