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Visual Studio and XCode are the closest experiences to “first-class IDEs”, reminiscent of the Borland stuff from the early 1990s. They offer tight integration with the native toolchains and a set of menus that mostly make sense. Environments like VSCode or Emacs are a generic platform for text editing and file manipulation, a lowest common denominator for a variety of languages, workflows and tastes.



Try Eclipse, or Geany if you want something very small, yet powerful for its size.




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