CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The CLion Blog
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CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.
  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    141·
    4 days 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

    • Artyom@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 days 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.

    • sacredfire@programming.dev
      4·
      3 days 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?

      • Miaou@jlai.lu
        1·
        1 hour 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?

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days 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.