Likelihood to Recommend It's a great fit if you’re looking for a user-friendly C++ IDE; comfortable with using Vim; looking for a fast, intuitive UI; or teaching your students C/C++. It wouldn’t be a good fit if you’re more comfortable with command-line based IDEs or planning to code in multiple languages, as it only supports C and C++.
Read full review Groups that use a [variety] of development environments (.net, python, web), Jebrain's products and Webstorm, in particular, are a great choice for productivity. If your developers are accustom to another IDE it might be better for all to sync on the same one. I wouldn't take the cost aspect as a consideration. A productive developer is far more important.
Read full review Pros Read full review Includes a built in spell checker to eliminate time wasted searching for small mistakes. Provides a drop down menu of options complete with keyboard shortcuts that allow for streamlined programming. Identifies when variables are named differently, allowing for cohesive work without the scrolling. Read full review Cons JetBrains, the company that created and maintains CLion, is located primarily in Russia. While that doesn't concern me it does create worries for some people. No real cons. The product is great and the support is equally excellent. Read full review The popup file search sometimes frustrates me. It caps the number of results, and sometimes it isn't clear that it simply stopped looking. I also used to have trouble finding string occurrences that I knew were in my project, but I think they've made improvements in this area recently. Being a AAA IDE, WebStorm can be a memory hog. If I don't kill it every few days, it can get really slow. I would love to see performance improvements. Speaking of performance, WebStorm can take a long time to launch. I'd like to see improvements in launch times. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It has the features that I need for my coding
Read full review It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.
Read full review Usability CLion does everything I ask it to do. For me, Unreal Engine 4 compatibility was essential and Epic Game and JetBrains delivered a solid alternative to spending a huge amount of money on the "standard" IDE for game development on Windows. The user interface is sharp and modern without all of the silly frills many software suites now employ. It integrates well with source control systems we use and also works well, as expected, with other JetBrains development tools and assistants.
Read full review It's easy to teach new users the extreme basics to get them working, then let them figure out little tips, tricks, shortcuts, refactorings, and other features on their own.
Read full review Support Rating I am giving it a 9 out of 10 because I did not even need official support from the CLion team but rather, every time I came across a problem, I have been able to solve it within the community itself. This is so precious that you don't even need the help of the program's development/support team. There's a huge community of users that backs you up.
Read full review I gave this rating because I have never needed their customer support, which is the highest level of support I suppose. When a product works just fine out of the box and everything you may need is well documented, it's a paradise for the customer. But I've seen some questions asked on their portal, and I've seen thorough answers given to the questions and the willingness to support the customer with follow-ups and everything else.
Read full review Implementation Rating Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.
Read full review Alternatives Considered First thing it has better UI. When it comes to usability CLion is the best
Read full review I think WebStorm is way ahead of open-source editors. Please don't get me wrong, I love open-source. But the other free editors have a lot of configuration which blocks my whole coding experience. Take "Atom" for example. I used it for about 3 months, but in that time I had to update the plugins hundreds of time, and for every little thing (e.g. linter) I had to download a community plugin, and with each plugin atom would get a little slow. Take "
Eclipse " for another example, which is very suited for Java, but not so suited for JavaScript. Sublime was good, but WebStorm comes with many exciting features that I did not find in sublime/notepad.
Read full review Return on Investment CLion helped us to speed up our development. Version control support reduced many problems like merge conflicts. Read full review Saves lot of time when we are finding the text or files. Easy to work with for support projects. Nice code completion feature. It's all in one solution for both front end, back end and database solution to work with. Initial learning curve is required to use the workbench. Documentation can be improved better probably adding videos, would be helpful for visual person. Read full review ScreenShots