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CLion vs MonoDevelop: What are the differences?
Developers describe CLion as "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. On the other hand, MonoDevelop is detailed as "Cross platform IDE for C#, F# and more". It enables developers to quickly write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It also makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and macOS maintaining a single code base for all platforms.
CLion and MonoDevelop can be categorized as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.
Some of the features offered by CLion are:
- Smart Editor
- Code Generation
- CMake
On the other hand, MonoDevelop provides the following key features:
- Multi-platform
- Advanced Text Editing
- Configurable workbench
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 MonoDevelop
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Cons of CLion
- No good support for Makefiles2
- Not free, unless you are a student2
