Thread: juCI++ IDE

Has anyone else tried juCI++? It uses libclang to parse and error check code in real time, and uses cmake as its build system. It's very new, and lacking in the features department, but it does all the basics, and so far, it seems like a very good start. I wouldn't consider using it for serious projects until it's a bit more mature, but I think it's great to see someone working on an open source C/C++ IDE, that isn't written in java (Eclipse), and doesn't use a proprietary or nonstandard project/build system (Qt Creator). I know there's also Code::Blocks, but I've never been a big fan. I've always felt that it was very unpolished, and not really suitable for serious software development.

Looks interesting. But being an IDE a specific class of code editors, I would say this project lives or dies on how good a debugger UI it can offer. And this really has been my main beef about these open source IDE projects a little all around. Seeing they describe nothing of the sort on the readme.md this does not bode good. We all have been spoiled for choices when it comes to text editing features in IDes. That's not what has been lacking in the current ecosystem.

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

It also got me to use CMake which has been working out surprisingly well.

My company's switch to Clion was what got me to switch to CMake, but It's really cool that juCI++ uses it too. I can literally take my Clion projects and open them in juCI++, and everything still just works.

juCI++'s debugger integration is pretty lousy right now, but it's still a very young bit of software. It's also an open source project, so if you like the direction it's going, you can contribute. I may do exactly that. It's an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a project, when it's still in a very malleable state. I've never found an IDE that I really liked, or that did everything I needed it to. I've found everything I want in a number of separate IDEs, but not all of them in one.

Unfortunately, it generates the initial file, but you have to modify it manually each time you add a file, etc. However, it does run cmake automatically each time you save the project file, so that's a start.