Been playing with IDE as I am sort of toying with the idea of learning C++. I have tried Anjuta and KDevelop and a couple of others but 1 stands out, Geany. (Home page
http://www.geany.org/. Nice and lightweight, very fast with all the languages supported for syntax highlighting you could possibly want I think. C++ is just one of the syntax highlighting languages, there are many, some I have never heard of, what is Haxe used in for example? Script languages well supported, Python and Perl for example...