This is quite cool. Is only RubyMine left without community version?
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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It was already free for students before tho lol
And in fact, I have almost everything of the JetBrains library for free
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.
Not that it was much good to begin with, but enshittification is coming
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?
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?
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.