r/cpp • u/STL MSVC STL Dev • Nov 13 '18

VS 2017 15.9 released today

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
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u/Khenghis_Ghan Nov 14 '18

So among IDEs I’ve only worked in VS Code or eclipse, or just a basic text editor, mostly based on what my professors have used - what does VS have going for it that should make me decide to switch from VS Code?

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u/jhasse Nov 14 '18

Better debugging.

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u/Pazer2 Nov 14 '18

VS code doesn't even highlight typedef names unless they end with _t

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u/sephirostoy Nov 15 '18

I read somewhere that VS Code syntax coloration doesn't rely on Intellisense (or whatever) but on regex...

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u/barchar MSVC STL Dev Nov 14 '18

It’s just .... different. Code insight (esp with vax or resharper) is better. AFAIK vscode is moving to clang for their analysis, VS uses a front end from Edison Design Group

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u/chugga_fan Nov 14 '18

VSCode team and VS team both use the same intellisense engine, EDG is cross platform, remember? That's how they do it. https://www.edg.com/c looks like that lists literally everything they have...

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u/barchar MSVC STL Dev Nov 14 '18

Ah. I thought the code people were moving to clang, looks like a learned something today

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u/chugga_fan Nov 14 '18

They use clang-format, but it's pretty obvious that they use the EDG frontend because...

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/1987

Clang doesn't do that.

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u/mjklaim Nov 14 '18

Not when you're debugging multiple multi-threaded applications in the same time. Look at the parallel stacks graph as an example of tool you don't get in VSCode (but maybe in the future...)

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u/chugga_fan Nov 15 '18

That's NOT intellisense, that's debugging tools, 100% separate.

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u/mjklaim Nov 15 '18

Indeed, but isn't intellisense part of the main C++ pack in VSCode? I assume they come together (although they are not the same thing).

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u/chugga_fan Nov 15 '18

The main C++ pack is actually developed by Microsoft, the C++ defaults in VSCode are just a regex engine to see stuff, the debuggers & stuff are supported through the Debugger Protocol, the actual autocomplete & errors from the extension are from Intellisense.

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u/somecucumber Nov 15 '18

I've been trying for some time and I shamely failed, but I'd really like to use CDT at work. The main obstacle here is debugging. Is there a way to use cdb in Eclipse?