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Eclipse has the best C/C++ tooling these days, IntelliJ has a lot to catch up still: http://eclipse.org/cdt

It is nice to see them trying.

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If you abstract from platform-dependency Microsoft Visual Studio has the best C++ tooling these days, hands down.

If Python and Java are any indication, and JetBrains continue to invest in that, I bet their C/C++ IDE will be much better than CDT.

These days? How did you come to your conclusion, in my research Eclipse CDT has really fallen behind (Qt Creator, KDevelop and maybe even CodeLite)

I don't know, Qt Creator gives up on the code base I have to work on, CDT has problems but is still much better. I remember it used to be the same at my previous job.

I wish I could use KDevelop or Xcode, but we're doing our work on Windows (and that's the case in most corporations, because of Outlook...).

And I don't even dream about auto-refactorings, I just want an editor with good code browsing capabilities...

Why not use VS? I have plenty of complaints about various Microsoft products, but very few of them are on the quality of their C++ IDE.

Let alone Visual Studio and Xcode.

lol no

Compared to Visual Studio Eclipse CDT is cute at best.

I wouldn't be so quick to say that. VS is very C++ centric. Last I heard offical support for C features past C89 gets pretty spotty with MS.

By the way for Visual Studio you will be able to use ReSharper C++ support: http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/06/26/resharper-to-sup...

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