This is an awesome request.
| Subject: Why can't it "just work"? |
Author: Rob Lewis |
Date: Tue, 20 October 2015 14:40 |
My son began his CS education writing Java with Eclipse. I've actively followed his progress, in part to update my own programming knowledge.
Now he (we) have moved on to C++, and after installing the CDT, Eclipse's ease of setup and use seem to have ended in a morass of confusing options and obscure (and apparently wrong) settings that prevent writing and running the simplest of programs without
hours of often fruitless research trying to figure out what needs to be changed ("The symbol cout could not be resolved"? Really? What, please, is a "toolchain"? Could we get a more helpful error message than "syntax error"?)
All these options and settings might be valuable to very senior programmers who appreciate such fine-grained control of their IDE, but it seems to me there is a great need for a Mac student-level C++ package that "just works" without all the drama. (I actually
don't know if other OS versions of Eclipse have the same problems, but I suspect they may.)
Is there any possibility that Eclipse's developers will take pity on beginning C++ programmers?
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