Question

As we are (me and people I work with) more and more frustrated while working with C++ projects 250 000+ LOC in VS2010 sp1 (the slowness of this IDE is just unbelievable), in my company we were talking about migrating our code to some different IDE. We did some research, and a strong candidate seems to be Embarcadero C++ builder 2011 XE. Any thoughts on it? Is it any good? How does it compares to VS2010 ultimate?

Answer 1

Not actually an answer, but I’ll just leave it here:

1. It costs money (yes, VS too, but you already own that, don’t you?)
2. It will be not too easy to migrate a big enough project to new IDE (and compiler), not to say about the people you work with and their habits (I would just quit probably).
3. There’s a new compiler too, with its brand bugs and caveats to learn about. And it’s much less widely used than VC++. However, it’s based on Clang, which should support standards better than VC++, and be easier to port existing C++ code to.
4. The difficulty of migrating hugely depends on the nature of your project (is it GUI based, how deeply does it rely on MS VC++ being the compiler?)