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Visual Studio Express

Pros:

• Free
• Beginning function name substitution
• Ability to collapse a block

Cons:

• Resource files cannot be edited visually
• No MFC / ATL support
• Windows only

Visual Studio Community

Pros:

• Free for certain categories of users (for open-source developers or for small businesses)
• Function name substitution at the beginning
• Ability to collapse a block
• Availability of resource editor, MFC / ATL support

Cons:

• Paid for large enterprises (& gt; 250 PCs or & gt; $ 1M in annual revenue)
• Windows only

Visual Studio (Professional / Enterprise editions)

Pros:

• Beginning function name substitution
• Ability to collapse a block
• Availability of resource editor, MFC / ATL support
• TFS Support
• Advanced Testing Functionality
• Plugin availability

Cons:

• Paid Product
• Windows only

CLion

Pros:

• Refactoring
• Autosubstitute everything
• Cross-platform
• Debugging with GDB

Cons:
– paid product

wxDev-CPP

Pros:

• Free
• Plugin availability

Cons:

• No function name substitution at the beginning

Eclipse CDT

Pros:

• Free
• Plugins (incredibly many)
• Refactoring (not too cool, really)
• Auto-substitution of any identifiers
• Built-in Doxygen support
• Ability to debug with GDB
• Cross-platform

Cons:

Code :: Blocks

Pros:

• Free
• Cross-platform
• Support for multiple compilers
• Support for Dev-C++ packages
• Weekly nightly build
• Lots of application templates for different libraries (wxWidjets, Ogre3D, Irrlicht, Opengl, SDL, etc.)
• Fortran 95 support (sometimes very useful)

Cons:

• Rare official releases
• No error highlighting in editor
• Weak analytics
• No refactoring at all

NetBeans

Pros:

• Free
• Plugins
• Refactoring
• Autosubstitution of methods, classes and macros
• Debugging capabilities, including remote debugging
• Cross-platform

Cons:

• Insufficient support for different assembly views
• Requires installation and connection of compilers

KDevelop

Pros:

• Free
• Code auto-substitution (here and there)
• Interesting code highlighting
• Debugging with GDB

Cons:

• Sometimes not smart enough code analysis

MinGW Developer Studio

Pros:

• Free

Cons:

• TODO: specify cons

CodeLite

Pros:

• Free

Qt Creator

Pros:

• Free
• Cross-platform
• Support for multiple compilers
• Autosubstitute everything
• Ability to collapse a block
• Refactoring
• Debugging with GDB / CDB
• Working with git out of the box

MonoDevelop

Pros:

• Free

Cons:

• The project is closed

Visual Studio Code

Pros:

• free
• many plugins
• custom
• workable auto-completion
• working with git out of the box
• also works under linux / mac (for C++ you need to install a plugin from Microsoft – Ctrl + P , ext install C++ )

Cons:

• does not know how to fully work with C++ code under Windows. Very good support for linux / mac (including debugger)