CLion
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
2warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the best experience appears to be with Clion”
“I've had no issues running CLion on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air”
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“night and day and not to the benefit of VS Code”
“All in all dev experience is excellent and far exceeds that of Cursor I was trying to use for a while.”
“I guess I'll use Clion for my platformio stuff:”
Caveats and dissent
“until increasing the garbage collector maximum heap size all I had was a blank screen”
C++ developeron “A curmudgeon tries a language server”
“Makefiles aren't supported well by clion or visual studio.”
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Threads where it came up
- SpaceX and Cursor partnership. Right to acquire Cursor later this year 2 mentions
- A curmudgeon tries a language server 1 mention
- The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type 1 mention
- No More JetBrains Products for Me 1 mention
- A History of IDEs at Google 1 mention
- I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ 1 mention
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All comments 13
“until increasing the garbage collector maximum heap size all I had was a blank screen”
“the best experience appears to be with Clion”
“I've had no issues running CLion on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air”
“Other people actually made CLion work reasonably well with C++ too.”
“night and day and not to the benefit of VS Code”
“All in all dev experience is excellent and far exceeds that of Cursor I was trying to use for a while.”
“is has had CMake debugging since cmake 3.27”
“I use CLion mostly but I never stop coming back to Emacs+LSP.”
“you can debug it on IDEs, Clion already has some work into that direction.”
“When using my usual IDE(clion)”
“I guess I'll use Clion for my platformio stuff:”
“Makefiles aren't supported well by clion or visual studio.”
“CLion is smart about surfacing relevant suggestions first”