Comment by keithnz
It doesn't point out the massive productivity boost of Visual C++ 6, IntelliSense (ie, autocomplete). This saved so much time from having to look up documentation.
It doesn't point out the massive productivity boost of Visual C++ 6, IntelliSense (ie, autocomplete). This saved so much time from having to look up documentation.
heh, sorry, but intellisense was the first thing we (in a game studio) turned off immeadiately after install (by deleting the dll as there was no other way) because it was unacceptable resource hog. this was around VS 2003/2005/2008.
visual assist x worked better.
I worked on that! I was a dev on the team that built the first IntelliSense engine for C++. It’s a miracle it worked at all. It was based on a hacked-up version of the C++ front-end, but when it inevitably hit errors attempting a single-pass parse of the current source, it would silently bull its way through and try not to get too screwed up. Doing that in the presence of templates was not a good time. But with the RAM and processing speeds available then, I’m still kind of shocked it worked at all, 28 years ago.