Ultimate++

As with any type of work, coding also involves some rather menial workloads. Such workloads usually concern setting up the bases to develop upon further, and development would be greatly expedited if processes of this kind are handled in a more automatic manner.

Various IDEs happen to provide ways to speed up coding workloads, and a solution that looks quite enticing in that regard is Ultimate++. It is a C++ toolkit that was designed to help programmers manage their code more efficiently, in more ways than one: there's a built-in IDE and a populous library, and both come together to create an environment conducive to C++ app development.

The tool doesn't really waste time with niceties: unpack the archive, launch the executable, and get to programming. To first welcome you, the Assembly menu will present you with the available packages, taken from its generous library: these packages serve to boost your workflow by providing ready-made code, which works to kick-start development.

Packages for things such as basic callbacks, formatting strings, directory comparers, and so on, are all readily accessible in this Assembly section. Examples, tutorials, as well as references are all nested in there, and there's a ton of stuff to get through: almost 40 examples, 186 references, as well as 49 tutorials, making this tool a well-fleshed-out learning environment.

Developing and managing your code is handled very thoroughly in the interface: the code editor provides functions such as code highlighting, comparing, and so on, to boost efficiency, and everything works a treat. For instance, selecting a command that is repeated multiple times will automatically highlight all the other instances, ensuring that users are on top of their programming.

What's more, the interface lends itself well to complex project workloads. The multiple panels allow users to manage multiple packages, organize, build, and debug them, and much more. Context menus contain lots of helpful functionalities, too: word wrapping, inserting various #include strings, and so forth.

There's a lot to U++, and experienced C++ programmers will certainly feel right at home here, whilst aspiring developers will also find a development environment that will help them improve and polish their code.