Tools used for development

[tigerw]

Visual Studio 2013 Express for Desktop (those who don't use Windows XP or Vista)

Direct ISO (789.7MB): http://download.microsoft.com/download/7...xp_ENU.iso
Web installer (1013KB): http://download.microsoft.com/download/7...s_full.exe

[tonibm19]

Do you think it's better to use VS 2013 than 2008? Now I have windows 7.

[NiLSPACE]

It's all taste. For example I tried VS 2013 and I hated the interface so I'm still using 2008.

[xoft]

Does VS2013 still take so long to start up as 2010?
For me, 2008 starts up almost instantly, 2010 takes several minutes. Also the memory footprint is better with 2008, I like the visuals a tiny bit more (no space wasted by thick window chrome). And there's no new feature in 2010 that I'd miss in 2008. Can't compare to 2013, since it doesn't run on WinXP.

[tigerw]

Visual Studio 2013 Express for Desktop | Timings:

Code:

Startup time (normal launch opening no projects): 2.58s
Memory consumption (normal launch with no projects open): 85.2MB

System specifications:

Code:

AMD A4 4300M
6GB RAM
Windows 8.1 (x64)

How about yours? Make sure to let VS2008 settle a bit before taking memory readings

[FakeTruth]

I really like Visual Studio 2012 Professional. It starts pretty fast on my laptop and it's very responsive (better than 2010). I haven't tried 2013 yet.

[Seadragon91]

I use geany for scripting
http://www.geany.org/

[worktycho]

Visual studio 2012 for c++ on windows
Meld for sorting out merge conflicts
VMWare for running linux for most of my development.
gedit + clang for c++ on linux
gcc as a backup compiler
valgrind + gdb for debugging.
gprof for profiling on linux
AMD CodeXL for openCL and profiling on windows.

[xoft]

Added SQLiteBrowser.

[sphinxc0re]

What's up with Eclipse + CDT? I'm all running Linux so I'm using that:
Eclipse: http://eclipse.org
CDT: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.cdt