Pardon the crude ASCII bow 'n' arrow.
I finally got my graphics project working, no thanks at all to my teacher. He recommends Visual Studio. After this, I recommend taking VS behind the barn and shooting it in the head like a rabid warty dog. When I figure out how to get glut working in linux with vim, I will be happy – in the meantime, I am satisfied with this using Dev-Cpp:
Of course, it's supposed to look like this:
But I got a pretty picture (FINALLY) and that's what counts.
I think all modern IDEs suck for their own reasons. VS 2010 is a bloated piece of shit, Dev-CPP is a broken retarded kid who can't do anything useful, and Code::Blocks has painful UI design, requires too much configuration, and its intellisense is worse then VC++ (which is really goddamn bad).
In addition, most IDEs are incompatible with each other and getting projects on windows to work on linux and vice versa is a pain in the ass and usually involves an incredible amount of hackery and crazy workarounds. And no one does intellisense like I want to, because they all whine and bitch about how hard it is to parse C++. Fuck you guys, I can do it myself.So basically the entire situation is a wad of shit. This new SP1 update for VS2010 *introduced bugs*. I cannot believe how idiotic M$ is getting.[/rant]There is no way notepad++ will become bloated. I've been using it for almost 4 years and it has steadfastly remained lean and mean and I seriously doubt that will ever change.
Coincidentally I was asking myself earlier today about whether it'd be possible to write an IDE project manager plugin to notepad++ in order to turn it into a full-fledged makefile-using IDE with intellisense and squiggles and whatnot, whilst avoiding all the bloat issues that seem to accompany all the huge, bloated IDEs that try to implement those features the wrong way over and over.