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CLion vs KDevelop: What are the differences?
CLion: A cross-platform IDE for C and C++. Knowing your code through and through, CLion can take care of the routine while you focus on the important things. Boost your productivity with the keyboard-centric approach (Vim-emulation plugin is also available in plugin repository), full coding assistance, smart and relevant code completion, fast project navigation, intelligent intention actions, and reliable refactorings; KDevelop: A free, open source, and cross platform IDE. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and many other programming languages. It offers a seamless development environment to programmers that work on projects of any size. It helps you get the job done while staying out of your way.
CLion and KDevelop belong to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by CLion are:
- Smart Editor
- Code Generation
- CMake
On the other hand, KDevelop provides the following key features:
- Quick code navigation
- Remarkable code comprehension
- Semantic highlighting
Pros of CLion
- Good editor31
- Easy setup30
- Powerful refactoring, extremely smart IDE24
- Already one of the best C/C++ IDEs, even before launch24
- Cross-platform build21
- Clean, Sleek User Interface19
- Much faster and smarter than Intellisense18
- Vertically/Horizontally split windows13
- Great navigation, error messages and auto completion12
- Vim plugin9
- Not a 20gb installation9
- It is best IDE6
- Like this one because of - not a 20GB installation3
- Free Flowing C++ IDE2
- IDE supports Python with all features of PyCharm CE1
- Very good Git plugin1
- Cheap, just 99 USD for the first year1
Pros of KDevelop
- User Friendly2
- Simple Design2
- Code intellisense for c++2
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Cons of CLion
- No good support for Makefiles2
- Not free, unless you are a student2
