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Am i missing out if I dont use an IDE? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Ministar@lemmy.world to c/programming

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So, I have been mostly self thaught programmer (C++), as its a big part of my job (not a regular developer). But so far I have been using a simple text editor like Geany to code and I compile stuff either in terminal (linux) or produce my own make file.

I am starting to wonder if I should switch to a full IDE, as I am on linux, I was thinking of trying KDevelop. But I am simply not sure if its worth, do I even need it?

I have never used an IDE, it seems kind of complicated for the start with "projects" and I havent really found any good introductions to how this workflow is supposed to work.

Do you think using and IDE is something everyone should use? Or do you think a text editor with producing your own make files should be enough?

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[–] Pekka@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Some IDE's really speed up development, yes. They provide tools for running tests, automatically do formatting and make it very easy to navigate around the code. For me, that last point is the main reason to use an IDE, it is so much faster to just click on a function and go to the file where that function is implemented. IDE's can also help with setting breakpoints and using the debugger.

I'm not sure how things are for C++ though. Personally, I mostly develop with Java, Typescript (Svelte), Python and Rust. For Java, I use IntelliJ, for all others I just use VS Code.