Re: c/c++ project management and debugging

[Elena]

On Dec 21, 1:10 pm, Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 12:00 pm, Rajinder Yadav <devguy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > i've never had the need to create a makefile or edit one by hand when i
> > code using visualstudio, all i care about is coding my project in C++
> > and getting on with life.
>
> You don't know what a professional IDE is then, and why Emacs isn't up
> to the task.
>
> If you are doing professional C++ development, then you are tweaking
> your project settings all the time.  The VC++ Project Settings dialog
> is just a wrapper on top of a "Makefile" kind-of generator.  What VC++
> does that Emacs doesn't is setting default values which work unless
> you have special requirements.  That's why you felt that all you had
> to care about was coding your project in C++.  Development in Emacs
> does not give such luxury.
>
> > i love ruby on rails hacking, i love doing everything from the command
> > line, it's more faster and efficient coding a rails app when compared to
> > doing it with netbeans + ide, or whatever IDE is out there!
>
> Obviously, for hobbyists, an IDE is overkill.
>
> I'd really like this madness of recommending Emacs as an IDE to stop.
> When programmers hadn't anything better than an editor and/or programs
> were simpler, that made sense.  It doesn't make sense anymore.
>
> Again, this is not a fault of Emacs developers: they are not "selling"
> Emacs as an IDE,  over-enthusiastic user are doing that.  Such users
> are pushing Emacs way beyond what it can handle.

Oh, and makefiles are so old-school.  Upgrade yourself to something
more modern an IDE-friendly.