Hey all, been a while . Work and life in general has kept me away from this forum, but I'm hoping I can ply you all for some advice.
I'm wondering if anybody can recommend a good, modern IDE and compiler for Windows.
I've been working at a small university for the past few months teaching some intro programming classes. The university is recommending Dev-C++ to the students, which is way out of date. They're open to updating, but there's only one full time faculty, and they're too swamped to deal with stuff like this. The students hate Dev-C++; it doesn't work well on most of the lab computers or their laptops.
The school doesn't have much money, so whatever we replace it with would need to be free, or very cheap.
Code::Blocks used to be frequently recommended on this site. While the C::B forum and repo seem to be active, there hasn't been a release in 1.5 years AFAICT. Has C::B begun to die off, or would y'all still recommend it?
What about alternatives like Eclipse, Netbeans or CodeLite or CLion?
As far as compilers go, any recommendation on MinGW vs Clang or others?
Thanks a bunch.