• sacredfire@programming.dev
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    11 hours 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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      9 hours 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.