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

[AlexDenisov]

> - is the syntax checking / code completion / refactoring in any way clang 
> based? (quick look at the site didn't reveal anything about its innards) 

I do not believe it is based on clang. Their products are written in 
Java and from what I can tell they have written their own parser for 
C++ in Java. 
I had a short talk with a guy from core team some time ago and he told that they don’t use Clang, but own tool. 

From any language they only need AST. And they have custom C++ parser, though it supports a bit less than clang (i.e. it can’t parse some code).

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On 16 Feb 2015 at 17:40:28, Richard (legalize at xmission.com) wrote:


In article <CAOsfVvkheC0xN9SF4KjDM=+pofuZs-RZgcF2TfhTb=NGrP+h0Q at mail.gmail.com>,  
Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> writes:  

> Out of curiosity:  
> - are you involved in the project?  

Am I involved with the development of CLion or affiliated with JetBrains?  
No. I'm a happy use of other JetBrains products and have been waiting for  
them to address C++ development for some time now.  

> - is the syntax checking / code completion / refactoring in any way clang  
> based? (quick look at the site didn't reveal anything about its innards)  

I do not believe it is based on clang. Their products are written in  
Java and from what I can tell they have written their own parser for  
C++ in Java.  
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