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Re:10x Editor by forrestthewoods on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:46PM (#34235940)
> As a C++ developer, I don't really see how it is going to compete against VS Code + LSP, Visual Studio, or even CLion.

Easy, it's better than all of them!

If you're a C++ developer on Windows then I encourage you to simply try it. I run a 32c/64t threadripper so I also don't particularly care about hardware resources. My experience on a custom C++ codebase and Unreal Engine codebase is that 10x is faster and more reliable than VS Code, Visual Studio, and Rider. I haven't tried CLion as Rider is the JetBrains tool for UE.

I agree lack of support for other languages is a bummer. I'm hoping support will be added if the tool takes off. Maybe he ads LSP support, I dunno.

> parsing C++ properly is really hard

I'm genuinely blown away he wrote a custom parser that works. Unreal Engine is big and nasty and full of a kajillion macros. My experience thus far is that 10x handles it like a champ. Better than Visual Studio. And equal or better than Rider. Super super impressive.

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Re:10x Editor by thewebcount on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:59PM (#34236191)
> on Windows

They might want to mention that somewhere on the page. I spent time reading about it only to find out when I tried to download it that it doesn’t support my OS.

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Re:10x Editor by DannyBee on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:12PM (#34240559)
"Easy, it's better than all of them!"

Technically better is rarely the thing that makes something able to compete successfully.

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Re:10x Editor by msz-g-w on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:34AM (#34244411)
It's not going to compete successfully in a popularity contest with the tools mentioned, but it very well may compete successfully in its niche (faster, more reliable for particular situations etc.).
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