I was originally going to use CLion because I use JetBrains' Pycharm, however, I came to the realization that it was not free like Pycharm after downloading it.
So, any recommendations? I guess I should mention that I would like it to be free. I realize that I should probably look it up but I feel it would be more beneficial to ask you lovely people.
Eclipse is free and supports many different languages.
For C/C++ development, make sure you download the IDE for C/C++
Microsoft's Visual Studio Community is FREE and widely used by many developers. It supports other languages besides C++ and includes an integrated debugger. I've been using it for several years without any issues.
Code::Blocks is an excellent free, Open Source IDE for C/C++ and Fortran. It supports multiple tool chains. It runs on Linux, Mac, Windows.
I can strongly recommend it.
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is an open-source and light IDE for c/c++. It is made by Microsoft. I recommend it because it is easy to use and it doesn't require large space. You just need to install the c/c++ extension after the installation of the visual studio code.
Visual Studio is a great choice but it requires larger space and runs slow on low-end computers.
Sory, my coment from previos answer was a bit incorect, the old Dev-C++ is really dead, but there is a new version called Embarcadero Dev-C++. It is stil free and open source like its predecesor. This is also an IDE with minimal HD use which I know and it can be used as portable IDE even with compiler.
Dev-C++.
As a suggestion, for some it is more convenience not to use an IDE at all. Try Notepad2 + MinGW.
