What c++ ide do u use and what is visual basic for?

Question

What c++ ide do u use and what is visual basic for?

Answer 1

Eclipse for me, and Visual Basic is worthless so don't even bother with it.

Answer 2

I don't use C++ anymore. I used to love the language, but it seems a bit dated to me now (although, in fairness, the latest C++ standards to go a long way in addressing many of my objections to the language).



If I had to code in C++ today, I would use Visual Studio *IF* I was writing code strictly for the Windows environment. If I needed to be cross platform, I would probably use Eclipse. But I might be persuaded to use NetBeans if I knew I had the time to do a serious evaluation of it vs. Eclipse or VS.



Visual Basic has been around for ages. There was VB6, which was used a lot, but it was a really horrid programming language. It was easy to do easy stuff in VB6, but it was *really* hard to do harder stuff. Some people called it a 'fall off the cliff language'.



VB.NET is different. It is a full fledged .NET language. Any .NET language can be used for writing apps that run *ON WINDOWS ONLY*. If you are writing a Windows Only app, then a .NET language is a good choice. If you need (or at least want) to be cross-platform, then .NET is not for you. Neither is Visual Basic, in any flavor.



My ***personal*** preference is C#. It is another .NET language. I don't mind living in the 'it only runs on Windows' camp. And neither is my employer. I prefer C# over VB.NET because I grew up on C/C++. and C# is closest to those languages, but I can be an order of magnitude more productive writing code in C#. And I can apply my basic knowledge of C derived languages to other languages...like JavaScript. I guess that is the flaw with Visual Basic. If you want to learn any other language after VB, you have to start over. If you want to learn another C derived language, then you already know the very basic syntax rules.

Answer 3

Microsoft Visual C++ Express is free and works very well for Windows applications, although it doesn't provide a resource editor (but you can get freeware resource editors that work for most applications).



Visual Basic is useful for "quick and dirty" applications. It's easier to get a Windows GUI-based application going with VB than with pure C++, but the run-time performance is quite a bit worse, and VB is less flexible than C++ in the long term.



By the way, programming languages don't become "dated," except to people who never actually write software for the real world. Seventy-five percent of the world's business data processing is still done by mainframes, and most of that processing is done by programs written in COBOL, which is fifty years old. If the language suits the application, use it; age is irrelevant.

Answer 4

I use NetBeans for C++. It's the best free alternative I can find to Visual Studio.

As for Visual Basic, it's initial purpose was to make application development easier by integrating a visual design aspect into it.

Answer 5

C++ IDE: Visual Studio and Code::Blocks, mostly.



Visual Basic:

* Windows applications using the .NET platform. (C# is better)

* Web server scripting using the ASP.NET platform. (C# is still better)

* Windows administration scripting using the WIndows Script Host platform. (more often used than JScript, which is the other common choice)

* Macros for Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, etc.)