pakled wrote:
go by Sourceforge, Downloads.com, Nonags., etc. Great free software (open source)
Yeah, I've already looked and found a number of IDE's, I just don't know how good they are.
PilotPirx wrote:
If Linux is an option
Yes Linux is an option. It might even be preferable, since I can run it virtualized easily. I like to keep most of my software separated if at all possible. I tried running Visual C++ Express in a sandbox, but when I tried running a debugger on a hello world program I got a BSOD. It probably needs something the sandbox is blocking access to (I'm not sure what, because I ran C# Express sandboxed without problems.), so virtualization seems the way to go since I want to keep it separated.
So I guess what I'd like is a Linux IDE I can run virtualized that has capabilities similar to Visual C++ Express. I finally used NetBeans on Linux with the C/C++ module for my first homework assignment, but wondered if there was anything better. NetBeans
is a pretty good IDE. For Java.
You mentioned KDevelop. I hadn't heard of that one. Is it better than NetBeans?
One of you also mentioned Code::Blocks. I saw that one but I couldn't find it in my repositories even though there is supposed to be a version for Ubuntu and I didn't want to risk installing something I couldn't remove with the package manager if it wasn't any good.