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Off topic. Could you recommend an ide to work with c++?

CLion from JetBrains and Microsoft Visual Code are the best commercial ones for Linux, NetBeans is a free (as in freedeom and open source) one (that also supports many other languages like Java and Python).

What I don't recommend is Eclipse - it's complex and confusing for beginners (but a bit faster than some others).

I didn’t think NetBeans supported C++ anymore?

Yeah, at least according to the repo it seems they now delegate to the ccls language server and just do syntax highlighting via the textmate plist grammars that are so commonly paired with language servers

* https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/12.3/cpplite#cpplite

* https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/12.3/cpplite/cpplite...

Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows and QtCreator for Linux.

I find visual studio to be absolutely horrendous for C++. Refactoring doesn't work (even a simple rename symbol!) The errors aren't accurate, autocomplete seems to suggest every symbol from the stdlib before the class defined in the file itself and can't tell when it should suggest classes vs functions/variables.

Oh and of course compile errors are absolutely useless but I suppose that's a C++ thing in general. The error panel shows the (last? First?) Error in a chain of errors, which is always something deep in library code. E.g. accidentally tried to copy a non-copyable object using unique_ptr? You can't find the offending callsite, it just points you to xmemory and at best the class being wrongly used.

Compile errors will anyway be getting better as concept support gets built out.

qt-creator is a nice open-source IDE:

https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator

They offer binary releases, but it's also possible to compile from source without too much trouble. Written in C++, it's pretty snappy. Supports meson.

I can testify to JetBrains products, they're quite good. I haven't used CLion in a few years because I don't like depending on a dev tooling that costs money. I use VSCode because I hop between Python, Bash, Go, C, and C++. That being said, CLion definitely offers a much better debugging experience, even when VSCode has all the right plugins.

CLion is quite good IME. Visual Studio, historically, has been excellent, but I haven’t used Windows full time in a decade.

I use Qt Creator on every platform

CLion, VSCode, Vim - in order of decreasing tooling.

vim with the YouCompleteMe plugin (which uses clang-complete) is pretty good.

Contrary to a sibling post eclipse CDT is fine (especially with vim bindings).

It depends what you want from your IDE maybe?

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