Re:In Defense of C++
by petters on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:07PM
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One huge advantage of C++ is Visual Studio. Once Rust gets something similar I might switch for my personal projects.
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There's a Rust plugin for it. I don't use it though, I use Visual Studio Code as regular Visual Studio won't work on Mac or Linux.
It also depends a bit on why you like Visual Studio. Because it has one of the best Intellisense implementations? Much more common outside Visual Studio for languages that are not C++... Good visual debugger? etc...
There is basic support for syntax highlighting out of the box in Visual Studio and more using a plugin. https://areweideyet.com/
> Visual Studio
I am not so sure about that. C++ support in VS is rather terrible - especially when compared with support of C#. For C#, VS is excellent.
Nobody uses straight VS C++, they use pluggins such as Visual Assist.
In MSVC6 days yes. But in 2015 or later? The built in stuff has gotten really good.
Only when they have nice employers that pay for such plugins.
Doesn't VS only support a really old version of c++?
No, they keep up pretty well with the C++ spec.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-u...
You may be thinking of the lack of full C99 support.
People tend to compare it against gcc and clang, but it is actually the best C++ support among commercial compilers.