[Paraview-developers] Goodbye windows, Hello Mac

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

After many years developing primarily on a windows machine (and linux based servers), I am dumping my existing laptop and getting a new Macbook pro.

Since I'll be developing ParaView (and other applications), can others here tell me which combinations of IDE and debugger they use. I've experimented with Eclipse on linux and found it to be very nice IDE (compared to using VI) , but debugging is not great and the time to parse large projects like paraview for code completion etc can be traumatizing. Parallel work using PTP is ok on some of our machines, so I'll be using it anyway ...

...but I'd like to know about XCode, QtCreator, emacs? others.

Can anyone offer any advice on what I should try first. I have been accustomed to using the debugger in VS for about 90% of my daily work and I regard it as first class. I can attach to anything, debug and inspect - I don't quite know how I'm going to live without it. The ability to jump quickly to declarations of variables, navigate around the project and quickly locate stuff - this saves me so much time - and I'm hoping the Mac offers something similar. Debugging and code navigation are the priorities, with MPI debugging a must-have.

This is a little off topic, so I apologise in advance, but I'd like to know what other paraview developers are using on the mac.

Thanks

JB

[ brief aside not directly relevant to main question ...
Unfortunately, development of paraview under windows has become almost impossible due to the combination of cmake-2.8.x/VS2012 and whatever else which means that projects constantly rebuild and my development time has gone from seconds/minutes to hours for any turnaround. In addition, the mpich people have dropped support for windows (I need MPI-3) and some new projects I'm working on have toolchains which I can't get going on my windows machine - at least not without considerable pain anyway]

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