IDE for C application development that you admire most

Question

I am looking for a good Integrated development environment for developing applictaions in C language for both windows and linux.

IDE should have:

• good interface,
• easy file management,
• auto filling and
• any advanced options.

Tell me which IDE you most admire for these tasks

1. For general PC application development
2. For embedded application development in C

If you think it is more specific question then you may also take it as a general case. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For general PC development - Microsoft Visual Studio + VisualAssist

For large-scale development you can hardly find anything better than Source Insight

If you need a cross-platform IDE have a look at Eclipse CDT

Answer 2

For both purposes I'd suggest Eclipse.

Answer 3

Apart from TextMate on OS X which is more a very featurefull text editor, I'd say NetBeans or Eclipse.

EDIT: yes, if you have a mac, you can do PC development with VMWare/Paralles as easily as you would in a "real" PC and you get OS X as a bonus.

Answer 4

I'd say Eclipse is the best choice. Eclipse page

Answer 5

Check out Code::Blocks, it's pretty good, does C, and is available for Windows and Linux as requested.

Answer 6

Even if it was developed for JAVA first, I like the NetBeans IDE because it has some nice features and it knows about C, too.

CVS/SVN Plugins are available.

Answer 7

I'd describe Visual Studio as the most feature rich and comfortable place to be when writing and debugging code, but it has a narrow target audience - Windows developers.

As others have said, Eclipse is probably your best bet, The large array of available plugins come in handy too. For example, if you want to move to a new source code repository, the chances are there's an Eclipse plugin already written for it. You don't have that luxury with most other IDEs.

Answer 8

Emacs

Answer 9

SlickEdit is nice cross-platform IDE with autocomplition, macroses, various text editors emulation mode, refactoring capabilities etc... Commercial though.

Answer 10

Well when I'm working with C I use Vim, with the right plugins I find it to be the best IDE for C around. It takes a little bit of practice to get used to it but once you do you'll just be flying around your files.

Answer 11

There's some good advice on C IDEs here as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28605/c-on-visual-studio

I asked about using C in Visual Studio but the answers contain suggestions on a variety of IDEs