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    Quote Originally Posted by brewbuck View Post
    It's a bit heavy-weight, but I really like Qt Creator. It's not just an editor, but a whole IDE, and you can get it for all of the major platforms.

    And I'm not just being hypothetical. I use Qt Creator for "real work" on Windows and Linux and it's great.
    It also handles relatively large projects easily.
    KDevelop sometimes has trouble with the LLVM codebase (and KDevelop itself, sometimes!).
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    Quote Originally Posted by interestpaint View Post
    I usually use Notepad++, you can also try Vim
    Unfortunately, Notepad++ is Windows-only (.Net-based, I think), but now that Microsoft is open-sourcing the .Net framework, a Linux version may soon be a reality.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elkvis View Post
    Windows-only (.Net-based, I think)
    Nope, it's C++ / Win32-API.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elkvis View Post
    Unfortunately, Notepad++ is Windows-only (.Net-based, I think), but now that Microsoft is open-sourcing the .Net framework, a Linux version may soon be a reality.
    Open sourcing .Net will do squat to client applications if Microsoft keeps the client-side libraries and WPF closed source. And that is exactly what they are doing; They are just targeting the web and mobile market in a bid to gain some share in these two markets after the lost decade under Ballmer. You may argue that is a first step. But if that is the case, I'll not buy your prediction. Not for one minute I think Microsoft is interested in giving to the open source community the responsibility of accessing and developing the framework most responsible for the direction the operating systems since Vista have taken, as well as permitting for one moment that their entire office and server divisions become available for Linux ports.

    Another thing to keep in mind is whether the current open source version of .Net Core will be a fork or, instead Microsoft's main development branch. I don't do web or mobile based development, so forgive me for not having tried to search for an answer before. But if this whole thing ends being a fork of Microsoft main branch of development, then frankly the whole idea of an open source .Net is already dead before it started.
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    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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