I���ve acquainted myself with many IDE���s: Visual Studio, Qt Creator, CLion, and I���ve found it counter-productive to reconfigure projects and/or build environments within an IDE.

Instead, I can use nvim, the MSYS MINGW x64 shell and environment (I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but I have the misfortune of choosing an NVIDIA GPU, so, GNU/Windows is my mainstay).

I don���t mind IDE���s if the project can be well defined within a ���solution��� file, but even so, with Visual Studio, you may have to go through many config windows to pass the correct

build flags. Other IDE���s like Qt Creator are pretty similar where you have to recreate config cache files for minor build setting changes.

I feel better to forgo the latter in favour of text editors, like Notepad++ or NeoVim, even if you lose autocomplete and fancy highlighting and a nice GUI inspectors for piece-wise debugging.

Building and hacking on Inkscape is going easier this way.

Do you use an IDE often, or do you prefer using a special emacs setup or something similar, please share 😊

Cheers,

Ben