CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

a year ago by abobla to c/programming

CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

froufox 17 points a year ago

This is quite cool. Is only RubyMine left without community version?

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30p87 14 points a year ago

Whether you’re a student

It was already free for students before tho lol

And in fact, I have almost everything of the JetBrains library for free

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Artyom 4 points a year ago

As a former student who tried to stay on top of the absurd logistics of making use of my premium license, it sucks. Once a year you have to dig up your old account credentials, and it's always when you're in the middle of a high stakes project. Worrying about licensing sucks, even when someone else is paying for it.

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calcopiritus -4 points a year ago

Not that it was much good to begin with, but enshittification is coming

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sacredfire 5 points a year ago

I’ve heard it’s one of the best (if you’re looking for a full IDE experience). I haven’t tried it yet but I am on the lookout to hear about what tools people like to use for c/c++ development. Do you have one that you prefer?

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calcopiritus 5 points a year ago

It may be true that there's no better one. Which doesn't mean that it's good.

I have tried both clion and VSCode. I can't think of many more IDEs other than Visual Studio (which I haven't tried). I don't think there's many other options.

Clion is much faster than VSCode's C/C++ extension. For example go to definition is instant while VSCode can take 10+ seconds each time, and it doesn't cache results. However, that's the only good thing I can say about Clion.

At work I use VSCode. Why? Because it works. CLion worked for like 6 months, and then it just refused to lead the cmake project, becoming absolutely useless.

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Miaou 1 point a year ago

CLion is IMO by far the best option out there, short of going the editor-as-ide road (vim emacs etc).

QtCreator is good, but only better feature wise for qt/qmake projects.

VSCode is difficult to setup, the billions of plug-ins all lack something. I remember struggling to get remote debugging to work properly, I think because I couldn't override the default gdb flags to use local symbols (downloading 10gb of debug symbols every run, thanks but no thanks). Amongst other things I can't recall. It's probably a decent IDE for JS or hobby projects but I cannot recommend this for a professional environment.

I'm not gonna bother discussing VS.

What else is still around and actively developed? Codeblocks? Netbeans?

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