What is the best IDE for cocos2d-x?

cocos2d-x C++
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HI…I am new to the cocos2d-x environment, I have watched the basic tutorial here, I prefer code with C++ because I know more than java.

As the tittle above, my question is What is the best IDE for cocos2d-x for C++?
I read about cocos code IDE here, It says that cocos IDE is only for javascript and lua, not for C++. Why can’t we develop C++ games with this IDE? then what is the best IDE for cocos2d-x C++? IDE that supports Live coding like cocos code IDE.

I have installed cocos2d-x and eclipse.

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If you are on OSX then XCode, on Windows go with VS.

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Is Visual Studio support live coding? What about eclipse? What makes VS is better than eclipse?

Thank you for fast response…

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VS is way better than Eclipse in my opinion. I could literally write for an hour why…

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Can you give me few reasons why VS is better?
Can we integrated VS and cocos studio?

Sorry for too much ask questions.

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Agreed :smile:

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Dont even think about using eclipse… :slight_smile:

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Except you are in for the pain :wink:

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guys, can you tell me why VS is better? any suggest tutorial for cocos2dx and visual studio installation?

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I would say that Xcode is good for iOS on Mac otherwise use Eclipse for Android as there are certain plugins that really need something like eclipse.

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For me, it is polish, speed, the fact I know it gets updated, flexible, etc

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For now my deployment platform is Android, (cocos2d-x, C++ only.)
My development process is next.

  1. VS - Write, debug, test code in Visual studio 2015 community( in debug mode)
  2. Android - Cocos console release mode - final testing

VS pros:

  1. Very good debugger (tracking, fixing bugs is significant part of development every bigger, complicated app)
  2. Very good debug mode (assert many C++ errors: Memory corruption, compare iterators from different containers, etc)
  3. Fast, reliable (compare to i.e. Eclipse)
  4. Good IDE - intellisense, jump to definition, highlight syntax etc