Eclipse required?

Last year, my team used the Eclipse IDE to code the robot in C++. I was wondering if there are any less resource intensive editors we can use. I’m not very familiar with the way the editors work but I know that the plugins are specifically made for Eclipse, unless I’m just looking in the wrong places.

Here is a thread on how some people do it on Linux. If you hope to develop on Windows, it will require some working knowledge of a compiler to get the toolchain included, but you can use many of the same ideas seen in the Makefile linked in that thread.