In this day and age of advanced IDEs with plethora of functions, what tools you wish you had in your software development tool box to accelerate your day to day C & C++ software development? Please list the tools you wish you had but did not have time to code for yourself. For instance, it would be nice to have a tool to check if a particular piece of source code follows a defined coding style (variable naming conventions, space and braces placement across loops and conditions etc) . I am not aware of any tool that does but pl. do let me know if there is one. In essence, I would like to know what other tools SO users are looking for that is not available already with the IDE.
A:
AStyle : it's not really a coding style checker but more of a beautyfier(can handle spaces and braces, parenthesis etc.). You can hook it up as an external tool in Visual Studio, here is an Eclipse plugin and Code Blocks has also a plugin for it(CB for Win or Nix).
celavek
2010-09-04 20:14:32
It can also be used from the terminal, something thats important to mention. I personally would not want to download any bloated IDE just to run that.
mathepic
2010-09-04 20:24:02
@mathepic yes indeed, thanks for pointing the obvious thing I forgot to mention :)
celavek
2010-09-04 20:31:24