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Originally Posted by Alobar
I'm learning C++ in one of my classes, any advice on what IDE to use? The instructor recommended just using visual studio, but from what limited things I know it just sounds like total AIDS, and it sounded like it was just out of laziness that he recommended it ("well get this because lots of people use it and I haven't really written any code since 1988 so I have no idea what is good").
Microsoft can do one thing right and that is make an IDE.
Visual Studio 2015 Community edition is really nice and free.
It has all the features of what the Pro edition used to have and was pretty expensive if you didn't get it by being a student or pirating it.
I honestly believe that for C++, Visual Studio is better than Eclipse and you should go with Visual Studio.
Another alternative is Clion made by Jetbrains but it isn't free and I would not advice a beginner to C++ to use Clion vs Visual Studio.
I'm a fan of eclipse, i've used to for Android development and Java with testing out the C++ version.
You probably could pick whichever IDE (Eclipse or VS) but I bet you would like Visual Studio with Dark Theme vs Eclipse dark theme.