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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
Pros of Carbide
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
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Cons of Carbide
Cons of CLion
- No good support for Makefiles2
- Not free, unless you are a student2