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Carbide vs CLion: What are the differences?

What is Carbide? A New Programming Environment. Carbide is a new kind of programming environment which (as obligatory in this day and age): requires no installation or setup, supports Javascript/ES2015, imports modules automatically from NPM or GitHub, saves and loads.

What is 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.

Carbide and CLion can be categorized as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.

Some of the features offered by Carbide are:

  • Requires no installation or setup
  • Supports Javascript/ES2015
  • Imports modules automatically from NPM or GitHub

On the other hand, CLion provides the following key features:

  • Smart Editor
  • Code Generation
  • CMake
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Pros of Carbide
Pros of CLion
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    • 31
      Good editor
    • 30
      Easy setup
    • 24
      Powerful refactoring, extremely smart IDE
    • 24
      Already one of the best C/C++ IDEs, even before launch
    • 21
      Cross-platform build
    • 19
      Clean, Sleek User Interface
    • 18
      Much faster and smarter than Intellisense
    • 13
      Vertically/Horizontally split windows
    • 12
      Great navigation, error messages and auto completion
    • 9
      Vim plugin
    • 9
      Not a 20gb installation
    • 6
      It is best IDE
    • 3
      Like this one because of - not a 20GB installation
    • 2
      Free Flowing C++ IDE
    • 1
      IDE supports Python with all features of PyCharm CE
    • 1
      Very good Git plugin
    • 1
      Cheap, just 99 USD for the first year

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    Cons of Carbide
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      • 2
        No good support for Makefiles
      • 2
        Not free, unless you are a student

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      What is Carbide?

      Carbide is a new kind of programming environment which (as obligatory in this day and age): requires no installation or setup, supports Javascript/ES2015, imports modules automatically from NPM or GitHub, saves and loads.

      What is CLion?

      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.

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