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The advice about using both grep /and/ the IDE is very good. Often they are framed as in opposition to each other, but in reality they're just tools. IDE's are great when they work, but it's entirely possible to make it confused.

I keep hearing to get better IDE's, especially from Java developers who seem to have nicer IDE's than us C++ schmucks, but even the best IDE will not save you when your program is really an interpreter for some ad-hoc, unspecified dynamic language implemented on top of YAML or XML.

I highly recommend having shortcuts for both ripgrep, fd and clangd in your editor. Also remember you can use the .rgignore file.

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Visual Studio Code is nice in this aspect. When you use the terminal window, the output is parsed and you can ctrl+click on a filename or (filename:line) to jump to it

Speaking of IDEs - I work in video games development, huge codebase that's over a decade old, heavily templated C++ code - I've switched off the IDE "suggestions" long time ago, visual studio is just wrong about incorrect/missing code like 90% of the time. Just hit compile and read the errors, I have files that VS shows as nearly entirely wrong, squiggly lines everywhere, and yet they compile and link fine. And the opposite where VS doesn't see any issue at all but they don't build. Or they build fine using MSVC but not in Clang, or vice versa, and VS has no idea.

Yeah, visual studio is absolute and complete garbage with C++ code, it always identifies correct code as having errors, and it's not just a "big project" thing, it happens in very small projects, even "projects" that have a single file. I really don't get it... I also don't understand why intellisense doesn't update itself with the results from the compiler.

If you get the chance, when you encounter something like this that is reproducible (or at least seems obvious what's going on), you can use the Report a Problem tool and capture as many relevant diagnostics as possible. I don't work on the C++ tools team, but generally the folks working on VS are highly interested in getting detailed bug reports.

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I can assure you netbeans will change and then not be your No. 1 java ide.

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