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Hello,

I'm pretty new to C++ and uses Dev C++.

My question is:

Are there any "proffesionals" or at least not beginners using this software, or are you stuck with MS Visual Studio? or maybe another one.

Witch one do you prefer and why?

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Hello,

I'm pretty new to C++ and uses Dev C++.

My question is:

Are there any "proffesionals" or at least not beginners using this software, or are you stuck with MS Visual Studio? or maybe another one.

Witch one do you prefer and why?

If you want to work as a professional employed programmer not having VS in your luggage is going to count against you.

As an environment it's clumsy and geeky. Not exactly a RAD environment. Also MS interpretation of C++ is very bloated. You'll get RSI writing stuff.

For real easy RAD nothing beats Codegear, so if you want to do this on a personal basis i'd use that.

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If you want to work as a professional employed programmer not having VS in your luggage is going to count against you.

As an environment it's clumsy and geeky. Not exactly a RAD environment. Also MS interpretation of C++ is very bloated. You'll get RSI writing stuff.

For real easy RAD nothing beats Codegear, so if you want to do this on a personal basis i'd use that.

But Codegear's C++Builder starts at... 900$, and has no free version other than a 30-day trial.

On the other hand, Visual C++ Express is free, has the best debugger of the industry, and is by far the most widely used IDE professionally, so it looks good in a resume. Maybe it doesn't have the nicest visual GUI builder, but in any case, why would you choose C++ for RAD of a graphical application?

Code::Blocks is nice, but VS is superior in pretty much every way. The last time I tested Code::Blocks, I couldn't even expand an STL container during debug to see what was in it. Also, project management was quite clumsy.

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