Best IDE for Competitive Programming?

anon25640846 · July 26, 2020, 1:58pm

I don’t use Online IDE and don’t suggest anyone because of many reasons. I’m mentioning a few of them below :

They are internet dependent. So if your internet connection is not strong, it will take more time to load. Don’t mention the cases when whole code is lost because of poor connection.
Traffic during online contests.
Dependent on GUIs. We get so acustomed of easy compilation and executon that we never go behind the actual working of the compilers and everything. I myself have faced the same thing and I used to run around seeking help for even basics.
Plag, ofcourse.

Therefore I suggest any text editor and a compiler to run codes offline (preferably on a linux distro).
But it totally depends on a person, what they want to use.

I use VSCode on Linux Mint and sometimes I switch to CPEditor, just for a change.

thunderboltz · July 26, 2020, 2:41pm

I tried this, but it didn’t work. Thanks

harsh_joeyit · July 26, 2020, 2:41pm

if you are using antivirus, it may be because the Real Time Protection is turned ON. The is same is true for windows defender.

spaanse · July 26, 2020, 2:44pm

Thanks for trying. Have you reverted your exclude settings? I have updated my previous comment.

thunderboltz · July 26, 2020, 2:55pm

Yes, I reverted. My windows defender is disabled so Win Def must not be the problem.

chezzy_fries · July 26, 2020, 4:14pm

Dude i am facing similar issues. I had to reset my laptop due to some issues. Now on setting up mingw + sublime text for cpp, it takes forever to compile.

Do share if you find anything.

chezzy_fries · July 26, 2020, 4:19pm

I also tried this. Didnt work. Thanks

aryan_129 · July 26, 2020, 4:58pm

You can use the following online compiler

thunderboltz · July 26, 2020, 5:40pm

I’m doing same : mingw + sublime text

thunderboltz · July 26, 2020, 5:43pm

I prefer J Doodle C++17 over this one

aneee004 · July 26, 2020, 5:49pm

I’ve tried Sublime, Eclipse, Gedit + terminal, and Vim + Terminal, and vim + terminal is by far the best experience I’ve had. I’m currently using Vim + Terminal.
Vim also has a feature to run gdb inside vim, which is perfect for debugging.

ameybhavsar · July 26, 2020, 8:00pm

Geany+Guake works good enough.
Btw, how to use precompiled bits/stdc++.h? Does it really reduce compilation time?

chezzy_fries · July 27, 2020, 1:59am

But you were facing that problem in DevC right? So you shifting to sublime +minGW now?

Or you used both earlier? If both, was the compilation time high in sublime too? only in devC?

thunderboltz · July 27, 2020, 6:27pm

Yes, I shifted to sublime+minGW yesterday, but I am facing same problem …taking 20+ seconds for compiling…may be my machine is getting slow (unexpectedly!, still not sure) . So I’m using online compiler as of now.

aronquemarr · July 28, 2020, 8:22pm

I really like its Cobalt theme but there is no auto complete feature.

strawberry2005 · July 29, 2020, 2:26am

I use both vscode and codeblocks. I find vscode prety sick . But I have to forcefully use codeblocks as only that will be available in ZCO…

younkou · July 29, 2020, 7:33am

Crtl + C takes less than a second to terminate it for me.

ishank_kat162 · August 22, 2020, 6:11am

Definitly it does.
go to this directory(i am using ubuntu 20.04) :-
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/9/bits
and you will find your “stc++.h” header there.
then run command “sudo your_compiling_flags stdc++.h”
and you will see another file stdc++.h.gch, which is your precompiled header.
(my_compilng_flags = g++ -O2 -std=c++17 -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Wno-unused-result);
Before precompiled headers - (4 - 6s)
After precompiled headers - (0.3s - 1.5s)

jafar00 · August 22, 2020, 6:31am

anon25798791 · August 26, 2020, 8:22am

Hey ! how to set precompiled header files

Actually i have done everything successfully in my window according to a blog , and also i use “bits/stdc++.h” . But i can’t find any significant change in compilation and execution speed.

Can u plz tell me what else should i do to make it working?