but probably there's no hope...
There's plenty of hope. Some folks use Eclipse and I've been using Netbeans for a while but really I find all those big IDEs are a lot of bloatware, so just recently, in an effort to get back to basics I moved to using Notepad++ for an editor and running a makefile in a dos window.
Notepad++ is a great editor and using a makefile gives you total control over the build process.
Just like the "old" days.
Rob