KDevelop 4.5 Released 97
jrepin writes "KDE's integrated development environment KDevelop has just reached version 4.5. 'In this new version you will find brand new integration for Unit Tests, so that you can easily run and debug them while working on your projects. Furthermore, you'll find an iteration of our New Class wizard, many changes regarding polishing the UI in different places, better support for C++11 features and some other things you'll find along the way.'"
Re:KDevelop 4.5 Released (Score:3, Interesting)
Could anybody with real life experience answer my question about how it compares to VS and eclipse for example ?
This is my own opinion, and others' opinions may differ. I used KDevelop a lot when I was doing C++ programming in the KDE 3.x years.
It managed to save my entire project once, when I did something really stupid (outside of KDevelop) which destroyed most of the source files in my project. I had no version control back then, but KDevelop had a complete copy of my project in memory. I was able to re-save all of my source files from with KDevelop to reconstruct my project -whew-.
That said, my comparison is like this (for C++ only):
Visual Studio (it is one of the few things Microsoft does well).
KDevelop (because it had/has at least a primitive form of GUI builder integration).
Eclipse (last because it does not have a GUI builder at all).
KDevelop's gdb integration was hit and miss at the best of times, making it almost unusable for testing applications. It's GUI building capabilities were primitive at the best of times, and it created a gawd-awful mess of autoconf crap in the project tree. It was a wrapper around the very poor C++ development tools available for Linux, doing almost everything badly. It was generally easier to do C++ programming with makefiles, text editors, and the command line.
I have no idea how it performs with KDE 4.x, as it took an eternity for the KDevelop writers to rewrite it for KDE 4. The Qt 3 to 4 transition disaster is largely what pushed me back to Java, with its stable API's and massively improved performance as of Project Mustang.
I switched back to Java several years ago because desktop programming under Linux is absolutely horrendous. None of the Linux IDE's that support C++ are any good at all for desktop programming. KDevelop sucks at it, QtCreator sucks at it, Netbeans sucks at it, everything sucks at at.
For desktop Java development, though, Netbeans is far and away the single best IDE available on Linux. Eclipse is is a non-starter because, again, it lacks any kind of meaningful GUI builder integration.
Let me know when it works on Windows (Score:4, Interesting)
I have the feeling that nobody here... (Score:2, Interesting)
...really understands the power of KDevelop. The best feature of KDevelop is that it is built around the best GUI editor ever invented - Kate. Seriously, a Linux developer needs nothing more than a very good text editor and access to unix shell and commandline tools. KDevelop, as every good IDE, goes futher and besides the superb editor, provides support for projects, autocompletion, debugger integration and so on.
I have used KDevelop for many of my C++ projects and despite a couple of bugs, it has been a great tool. In fact, I've yet to see an IDE with better syntax coloring than KDevelop. Another nice feature is that you don't really have to create a KDevelop project to use the IDE - you can open single files in the IDE and it will still provide syntax coloring and autocompletion. These two things have been the killer features for me and I would not change KDevelop for anything that doesn't provide as much.