CLion Pros and Cons

It has excellent unit testing.

It has a very user-friendly UI.

It also supports VIM which can aggregate your coding speed.

It supports almost all languages.

It has very affordable plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not have significant cons, which might be a deal-breaker for you.

The only thing they can improve is by optimizing the software a bit more, as it lags a bit when working on large projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It intergrates well and quickly with our exsisting systems and lets me do almost everything i need in one place. I love the fact that i can use the code with me option, since i am a new developer, for my manager or one of my collegues to assist me in my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have any complaints about clion. I have no suggestions on anythign needing improvement. So far, it has failed to disappoint. All good things! Highly recommend all of JetBrains products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity of use of its interface turns out to be the highlight of this application, its easy learning allows me to carry out my developments in a much faster and fluid way, the fact that it has a good amount of documents and information is very useful When having to make a query related to the program without having to resort to the customer service team, the performance of the application is above average, with many other development environments it happened to me that the window was stuck and I had to wait a few minutes to start working, however with CLion I do not have this type of problem at any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is only oriented to C and C ++ I think they should expand it to more programming languages ​​and be a multi-language IDE, since it really is a very good option to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very similar to IDEA and I'm have been using IDEA for many years. Includes support for libc++ and that's a huge plus since I was dreading adding the support later. Code refactoring is relatively painless as far as it can be with C and C++ and GDB debugger is integrated for when debugging is needed for any reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really don't like using C but as a senior software engineer, I need to be able to help my junior colleagues whenever they need help, no matter what language they use. I still dislike using C with CLion but it's less painless since it's quite similar to IDEA and Rider that are my main work tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a very intelligent implementation for code completion. This is achieved in various ways including how CLion itself understands the language being typed on it and you can believe that it understands C and C++ very comprehensively. The other way that code completion is achieved is through the IDE's trying to learn the current code being typed and unedrstanding the context before suggesting completions.

Also jetbrains has tried to ensure that all their IDEs and tools have an integrated terminal where a lot of commands and third party integrations can be added. For instance, in the terminal pane, you can access your OS's (CLion is cross platform) command interface as well as other third party tools like npm, webpack and composer. All of these implementations help to ease a programmer's work life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The integration with the build tools that I've mentioned such as nodejs and npm is really messy and complicated on CLion comared to its rivals like Netbeans and Eclipse. This is also why you have to turn to the terminal to use these thrid party libraries instead of a simple GUI interface feature for faster and efficient access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I configured MySYS on the windows to emulate Linux development environment and I was able to fully integrate it with CLion. The debugging system also worked seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When debugging, rather than hitting the exact breakpoint, it sometimes acts weird. Also, the theme options are not very impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CLion is very intuitive IDE, with lots of customizable plugins which make the user experience even better. Navigation is simple, and the active community helps to solve any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the default keyboard shortcuts interfered with Linux utilities. Also, it allowed only one project to be opened at same time - it was pretty hard to compare code shared between two seperate projects. There is a free version of the application for students, but if someone is not enrolled in college, they could only get a free 30-day trial, which is not so much for people not enrolled to college, wanting to learn in their free time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the easy way to use it in so different OS(MacOS, Windows, Ubuntu). I like the integration of the terminal, because in MacOS and Ubuntu, it's very easy to get a docker or ssh connection directly from the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maybe it strength is also it weakness. You have a thousands of options and may cause some confusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As is typical of JetBrains IDEs, this is a powerful and feature-rich development tool. The extensions feature that we can install to facilitate our work. The student evaluation period is free. The debugger is super powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up the IDE was incredibly difficult at first, however, that could have been fixed during the latest updates. It struggles with large projects, particularly those with many dependencies. I have to manually start Clion from the command line for it to recognize the current path. I wish they supported the traditional Make for building, instead of just CMake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.