Visual studio is a pain in the butt and the defaults can be really anoying, like searching forever just to tune line number on. I would think that would be a default. I'm seeing more activity with Eclipse lately and java, and i have to say after getting pushed into it at work, it's expansive selection of plugin is very nice, at least when it comes to java. Junit, Emma, Infinitest make coding and writting unit and integration tests a breeze. And to get these features in visual studio you need the ultimate edition which is just plan silly. Not only is Eclipse cross platform, but visual studio is also stuck on windows. Maybe one day microsoft will try to advance their stuff.
I hate windows, but like a lot of things about Visual Studio. That being said, setting internal options is not one of them, nor is their set of defaults. Kind of horrifies me, honestly.
I hate windows, but like a lot of things about Visual Studio. That being said, setting internal options is not one of them, nor is their set of defaults. Kind of horrifies me, honestly. It's been awhile since
I've done much work with Java, but I've used Eclips NetBeans
for it. If either one of them had (at least as of when I last
checked) a decent visual editor for user interfaces I'd probably give that another swing (ahrhr) and just do this in Java. It was an introductory proj that I was learning C# on, but I've learned enough C# for now. I'd be happy finish it in Java, which offers more employment in the area anyway.
Have you used Eclipse for languages other than Java at all? Curious as to what some feedback might be for such.
The number of options can be intimidating, but I'd still rather have the options than not have them. The more I do software development over time, t more I learn about various build options, and the more I appreciate being ab to change certain build options if I need to. The opposite approach is the approach Apple seems to take, which is less-is-more: They often provide fewe options, with the idea that there is less to go wrong. Recently I started working on some Apple development projects at work, and I found that althoug Apple's XCode can show line numbers, it doesn't show the column number of th cursor, and there seems to be no option to turn that on.
The more i work with Apple the more i dislike apple. There isn't much i like about xcode at all and the environment in general just sorta irks me. haha Can't really explain it. It just feels so clunky to me at least. But maybe thats becasue i'm always running it in a VM..
As I've worked with Apple stuff more, I have not gotten to like Apple any mo than I used to. I don't think it's all bad either though. I like that OS X based on BSD, so the usual *nix tools are there (such as the bash shell, gre etc.). BSD is a very stable platform too.
I like BSD a lot too, ran my bbs off it for several years and ran like an absolute champ. It's seems like apple likes to take stuff and force their tools like xcode to even compile simple programs. Reminds me a lot like microsoft to tell the truth. But they are a company and have to protect their interests i supose. Just how it works.
It seems fairly typical to me for the OS maker to also have development tool for their platform. It's good for them to provide that in order to get developers to write software for their platform. In a way, I think it makes sense, since nobody knows the OS better than the OS maker, so they're in a g position to provide development tools & APIs that let you use the ins & outs the OS.
I do like having choice though - and you aren't necessarily stuck with XCode for Mac. I believe gcc is available or could be installed on OS X too, and other IDEs (such as CodeBlocks) are available. For the GUI, I once wrote a app for both Windows and Mac using the WxWidgets GUI toolkit - although I di use XCode to build it for Mac.
Yep, i can understand that each OS might want to have it's own SDK. But to limit normal gcc on the command line to requiring xcode is a little much.
but i don't think that counts as much. I do like how portable WxWidgets are, they are available in almost everything include python.
Re: Re: Visual Studio 2013 settings regarding indentation/code style
By: Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Wed May 06 2015 22:09:36
Yep, i can understand that each OS might want to have it's own SDK. But limit normal gcc on the command line to requiring xcode is a little muc
I don't think they limit anything there. I believe you're free to install g (if it isn't there already) and use it like any other *nix system. At least would think so, considering OS X is basically BSD at the core.
I like that aspect too. I think WxWidgets is a pretty good library, althoug some aspects remind me of Microsoft's MFC (which isn't necessarily a good thing). I've heard a lot of people like Qt and some recommend it over WxWidgets. I haven't used Qt though.
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