CLion Pros and Cons

There are a number of must have features in CLion, such as auto-complete, refactoring support, built in debugger, and the new profiler feature. All of these are useful in day-to-day operations. CLion also integrates very well with CMake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I dislike about CLion is the difficulty of getting CLion to accept a PATH configuration from a bashrc file. I have to manually launch Clion from the command line in order to get it to recognize the current path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The extensions feature that we can install to make our work easy. Also UI is best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we create new file, in any other folder, we have to configure the cmakelists.txt file everytime. This is the worst thing about this IDE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is basically everything you need in an IDE, I struggled to set up Visual Studio on a Mac and found an amazing superior alternative in Clion, everything from the console to GitHub integration is seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not enough content/tutorials online, May be confusion out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use this product to develop and debug C/C++ codes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing is quite annoying, However it is free for students Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Intelli IDE for c language, what more can you require? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing at all. Powerfull tool including cool themes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to install. The editor follows oxygen coding standard . Helpful for the make files. has all the c compilation version . provides console , debugger line to line and version control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initial learning is required which although is easy but takes time for a complete beginner. there is no backup facility . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Same style as other JetBrains IDEs, easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up the IDE was incredibly hard for the first time (however, that could have been fixed during last updates); Auto-correction for code works not that good comparing to Java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Autocomplete and suggestions for alternative loops etc. is quite good.

Support for dynamic imports.

'Ctrl' + 'Click' to move to the definition of the function.

'Ctrl' + 'alt' + 'shift' + 'N' to search for a symbol.

Moving the code up or down using 'ctrl' + 'alt' + 'UP'/'DOWN' to move some code around as it takes care of the indentation correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dynamic imports could be wrong sometimes, and the editor won't even warn you, you will need to figure out on your own. Default key bindings will give you trouble for moving to last cursor position in Gnome based linux distributions. I had to overwrite and set my own shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CLion makes it feel good to write in C, C++, and many other languages/frameworks available through plugins. It's easy to see a high barrier-to-entry to the C/C++/etc. ecosystem as many of these programmers feel it their duty to use ViM/Emacs and the trusty `gdb` for debugging. CLion makes that barrier-to-entry so small and easy to join. The GUI debugger is outstanding, and autocomplete helps solve struggles using even the most poorly named C libraries. The integration of other languages (and deuggers!) is extremely useful when working on a large project and makes me personally much more productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish they supported the traditional Make for building, rather than just CMake. While CMake is great once you're in, it can be tough to convert into for existing projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I work in an environment where we develop large scale software projects using linux and sometimes Mac OS for deployment to supercomputer clusters. Not using windows eliminates visual studio and CLion is an excellent replacement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to see support for Scons and Makefile natively rather than being limited to CMake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.