[cfe-dev] Review: CLion: a great way to develop on clang

[Manuel Klimek]

Out of curiosity:
- are you involved in the project?
- is the syntax checking / code completion / refactoring in any way clang
based? (quick look at the site didn't reveal anything about its innards)

Cheers,
/Manuel

On Fri Feb 13 2015 at 6:25:06 AM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

> Review of CLion from JetBrains, a new C++ IDE
> <https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/>
> (early access build CL-140.2310.6)
>
> Hi fellow clangers,
>
> I wanted to share my positive experiences using CLion to work
> on the clang codebase.  I'm using local copies of the code checked
> out from the github llvm-mirror repositories and working in my own
> feature branch following a typical github workflow.
>
> CLion understands CMake projects and even though LLVM+clang+tools-extra
> is quite a pile of CMake code, CLion digests it without difficulty or
> error.  The IDE itself is rock-solid, which is as I'd expect from an
> IDE shell based on IntelliJ which is a very stable shipping product.
>
> The editor, project navigator and whatnot are what you'd expect from
> any IDE these days.  Some things that I found handy:
>
> - filename completion while editing the CMakeLists.txt file
> - excellent refactoring support
> - excellent code navigation
> - a "run configuration" already created for every executable target
>   in the project.  LLVM+clang+tools-extra creates quite a large number
>   of executables, but CLion makes it easy to find the configuration of
>   interest by filtering as you type when selecting a configuration.
>
> Debugger support is on a par with gdb but with a GUI view of
> local variables, watch expressions, etc.  There is access to the
> gdb console if you want to head straight to the debugger.
>
> I am pretty keyboard-centric when I'm in a development session and
> CLion's IntelliJ-based IDE is easy to use and allows for robust
> keybinding customization if desired.  I tend to use the standard
> keyboard mapping and navigate through menus, etc., by the keyboard.
> CLion doesn't get in my way when staying focused on the keyboard.
>
> There's tons more I could say, but this is already too long :).
> I recommend just trying an EAP build and seeing what you think.
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