KDevelop 5.2 Beta Brings New Heap Profiler, Better C++ & PHP Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDevelop 5.2 Beta Brings New Heap Profiler, Better C++ & PHP Support

The first beta of KDevelop 5.2 is now available as the KDE-focused integrated development environment...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDevelop-5.2-Beta

[AJenbo]

Interesting, I was fairly disappointed last time I tried it for php work. Sounds like it has the basic down at this point. I have been focusing on extending CodeLite with the features I most want, but might still be worth giving kdevelop one more shot.

[Guy1524]

Is KDevelop a worthy alternative to Eclipse CDT?

[Happy Heyoka]

Is KDevelop a worthy alternative to Eclipse CDT?

Depends entirely on your favourite tool chain...
(I use Eclipse based IDEs for Xilinx and STM32 stuff)

It's not quite as polished as some of the Eclipse based apps - obviously not as many people to do the work - however KDevelop works great as a C++ IDE and has some nice features (including the generally awesome text editor).

The "side by side" documentation stuff works well enough and the clang parsing stuff (code highlighting) is good too.

I've also used it quite successfully for working with Arduino using cmake build scripts which is great because the Arduino IDE really doesn't cut it if you've used anything "serious". That said, there are a couple of wrinkles that make it a hard "first IDE"; you have to understand your toolchain.
When I have the time to play with OpenOCD support I might give it another look for STM32...

[lowflyer]

Is KDevelop a worthy alternative to Eclipse CDT?

Yes, absolutely!

But, saying the same as what Happy Heyoka said: It depends on your toolchain. If your main development area is on some of the many web technologies, Eclipse may be the better choice.

We are currently testing KDevelop as an alternative to Qt Creator in C++ application development.

[Steffo]

For web, Visual Studio Code is the way to go.

[jaxxed]

For web, Visual Studio Code is the way to go.

for web, VS sits in a field of extremely strong candidates that meet various needs. I know of 0 (of >200) web devs who use VS. I know one DevOps guy who uses VS, in an environment where they primarily push a lot of Windows only desktop code through a TeamCity deploy system.

EDIT: I've used 7 or 8 different IDE/editors for webdev, including WebDev, and I don't see VS on top by any means.

[Steffo]

for web, VS sits in a field of extremely strong candidates that meet various needs. I know of 0 (of >200) web devs who use VS. I know one DevOps guy who uses VS, in an environment where they primarily push a lot of Windows only desktop code through a TeamCity deploy system.

EDIT: I've used 7 or 8 different IDE/editors for webdev, including WebDev, and I don't see VS on top by any means.

VS and VS Code is not the same.

[HokTar]

Where's the CUDA highlighting?!

[Hi-Angel]

For web, Visual Studio Code is the way to go.

I think I asked on the forum, but probably I didn't get the answer because I don't remember it. So, anyway, I've always wondered: how is Visual Studio Code any better than, say, Kate?

I tried VS Code at my ex-job once expecting it to open Visual Studio projects, was disappointed, played around a bit, and came to conclusion it's just another code editor, one of many others. I am obviously not comparing it to IDE-like editors like gvim (or whatever folks nowadays are using — Neovim?) or Emacs, but comparing to Kate I see Kate is more featured. It supports huge number of languages, encodings, and does even have the mini-map of Sublime Text.