The KDevelop open source IDE for the KDE desktop environment has reached version 4.0 after five years of development. The developers decided to focus on making KDevelop a solid C++ IDE for this release instead of adding half-supported features for some of the other languages that KDevelop supports. In fact, many features from version 3.5 were dropped because the "nearly complete rewrite" was intended to focus mostly on C++ features. The crown jewel of KDevelop 4.0 is its C++ code "understanding engine." According to the developers, it "allows the IDE to understand your code better than you do." This cuts down on the tedious tasks required for development. KDevelop 4.0 features plenty of specific code assistance features as well. Code AssistantsThere are a handful of semi-automatic coding assistants in the IDE. For example, if you assign an item to a variable that doesn't exist, KDevelop will intelligently ask if you want to create a variable with the matching type you've assigned. If you call on a non-existent function, a similar process will take place. KDevelop will also ask if you want to adapt a declaration when you change the signature of a function-definition. Read more: DZone
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