Integrated Development Environments IDEs IDEs

• quite beginner-friendly
• very responsive UI
• has a VIM emulation mode (could be better, but it works)

• lots of features
• highly customizable, modern UI
• uses CMake as project model, however recent versions can also use traditional Makefiles
• has a VIM emulation mode (could be better, but it works)
• can be a bit slow for very large projects
• can be quite overwhelming for beginners
• free for students

• packed with features; very good autocompletion and code analysis
• large ecosystem of third-party plugins
• project setup and compiler configuration can be a bit overwhelming for beginners
• can be quite overwhelming for beginners
• Make sure to use the latest version, as only newer versions of the compiler are largely conforming to the modern ISO C++ standard(s).

Free Community Edition

• good static analysis & linting
• supports several project build models: fully managed, Makefile-based, …
• setup of compilers can be a bit confusing to beginners
• great VIM emulation with Vrapper plugin
• can be a bit slow for very large
• UI feels a bit dated

• quite beginner-friendly, very easy to set up
• gcc integration, comes with bundled TDM-gcc
• gprof integration
• low memory consumption
• UI feels a bit dated

• Eclipse-based IDE
• some unique features regarding static analysis and refactoring, like e.g., visualizing template instantiations
• can be a bit slow for very large projects