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Recommendations for a C++ IDE for audio development

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I'm about to start a project where I build my own VST plugin in an effort to finally learn C++. I'm looking for recommendations for IDEs and/or workflows that are suited towards audio development.

My day job is data analytics and climate projection modelling so while I'm new to C++ I do have decent experience using high-level object-oriented programming languages such as Python and R. When using R I primarily use "R-Studio" as my IDE, in Python I typically work in "Sublime Text" and run through code using the "IPython" command shell.

Just wondering what tools any C++ audio developers here use and how your workflow looks?
 
Usually it's Xcode on Mac or Visual Studio on Windows... More advanced C++ devs oftentimes appreciate the likes of CLion for its code refactoring tools.
 
Usually it's Xcode on Mac or Visual Studio on Windows... More advanced C++ devs oftentimes appreciate the likes of CLion for its code refactoring tools.
Thanks Dragon. I hadn't heard of CLion. I'll check it out.
 
I recommend the Juce framework: https://juce.com/
You can use it with many IDEs. It comes with the Projucer application, which makes project set-up a breeze.
I'm definitely interested in using JUCE. Looks like a fantastic framework. Does JUCE contain decent DSP functions as well? If not any recommendations? I have come across https://www.audio-tk.com/ (audio-tk) which looks pretty decent.
 
Visual studio or code blocks on Windows. Xcode on Mac.
Thanks healey. I've decided to be break convention and give Visual Studio for Mac a try. I've always found XCode to be a little bloated for my liking.

By the way, just had a look at your website and saw that your one of the developers for the CollaB3 organ. I've had that VST for years and really love it. So thank you.
 
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I didn't actually have much to do with it. I just cleaned up some of the code and did a bit of compiling, it was mostly built by the other contributors.
Well thanks for your part none the less. Anyway, I'm keen to give VS a go. Looks like it has killer debug functionality which is important to me.
 
Might want to check out HISE too
Had my eye on HISE for a while actually. I spoke to Christoph a while ago and he told me you can even use HISE as a C++ framework which is pretty neat. This project isn't sample based though so maybe down the line.
 
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