Which is a better IDE Visual Studio or Eclipse [closed]

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I have noticed a trend in Coop programs in the universities in my area at least. They are teaching using eclipse as an IDE, instead of Visual Studios. My company uses almost ex开发者_C百科clusively Visual Studios, but I have used both.

I am curious about whether the switch to eclipse at the university level is also prevalent in the workplace, or whether Visual Studios is still king?

Which do you prefer and why?

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There are different reasons for why Visual Studio Vs Eclipse

1. Visual Studio is commercial product and Eclipse is more of a freeware
2. Visual Studio is more friendly to .NET world and Eclipse is for JAVA, its not to say that totally we can not is vice versa
3. Visual Studio is more rich IDE in terms of feature wise, per se debugging, editing compare to Eclispe
4. Visual Studio provide lots of out of the Box stuff which reduces the development time and makes developer's life easy.
5. Of course there are lot of other reasons why one will go with VS or Eclise (as few companies are JAVA platform or .NET platform apps)

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For a Windows shop using only Microsoft compiler, there is no reason to use anything else but Visual Studio (with Visual Assist X).

Using Eclipse will keep your mind open to the cross-platform possibility.

However, I think that Eclipse is not a good cross-platform IDE for C++. QtCreator is a much better versus for Visual Studio (C++ only).