No, not magnifying glass goggles (and they look nothing like geeky). You need a ball cap, with bill-mount bracket.
I dunno, why would kdevelop be for nothing? Are K font sizes not configurable to non-eye-killing size?
And native development is always easier than cross-compilation with same IDE, so if you were a K-happy programmer, I think it'd be real nice. I hate KDE, so not so much here.