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Message: [QUOTE="jacob navia, post: 2414623"] It is indeed nice, but is it useful? I would say that an IDE is more than just launching "make", the compiler or gdb. Has it "go to definition"? Can you click in an identifier and the IDE will take you to the definition? Does it have name completion? (i.e. you type the beginning of an identifier and the IDE supplies the rest or a list of choices) Does it remind you the names of the structure members? (you type foo-> or foo. and the IDE supplies the list of union or structure members) Yes, syntax highliting but can you ask it to color the inactive #ifdefed code in gray? Yes, there is a debugger but it has no "automatic" window, where the debugger figures out alone what identifiers you want to see... Has it a resource editor to graphically display the dialog boxes and other stuff? The problem with many free IDEs is that they concentrate on the looks, that are very nice (using another compiler's precooked controls like Bloodshed) but they forget to spend more time in the real issues of an IDE... Bloodshed IDE doesn't compile itself. You need Delphi to compile it. If the developers would have used the IDE to develop it, they would have seen what it takes to build an IDE. [/QUOTE]