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I am former Java maintenance programmer and I hate C++ with passion for over decade.

But I recently started KDevelop IDE and was very surprised how nice is C++ with QT lib. I am even considering to join an C++ opensource project.

You should give QtCreator [1] a try. It's made by the Qt people for Qt development, but even for non-Qt stuff it's a pretty good IDE.

The FQA specifically mentions how nice QT is, about the only positive comment on C++ in the entire thing.