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CLion

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Followers379

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Votes175

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Stacks571

Followers707

+ 1

Votes480

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CLion vs NetBeans IDE: What are the differences?

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; NetBeans IDE: Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

CLion and NetBeans IDE 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, NetBeans IDE provides the following key features:

Best Support for Latest Java Technologies
Fast & Smart Code Editing
Easy & Efficient Project Management

"Good editor" is the top reason why over 21 developers like CLion, while over 63 developers mention "Rich features" as the leading cause for choosing NetBeans IDE.

Edify, Campaign Panel, and inFeedo are some of the popular companies that use NetBeans IDE, whereas CLion is used by Codealike, Zscaler, and EXANTE. NetBeans IDE has a broader approval, being mentioned in 62 company stacks & 46 developers stacks; compared to CLion, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

Pros of CLion

Pros of NetBeans IDE

26
Good editor
25
Easy setup
19
Powerful refactoring, extremely smart IDE
19
Already one of the best C/C++ IDEs, even before launch
18
Cross-platform build
15
Clean, Sleek User Interface
14
Much faster and smarter than Intellisense
9
Great navigation, error messages and auto completion
9
Vertically/Horizontally split windows
8
Vim plugin
6
Not a 20gb installation
3
It is best IDE
3
Like this one because of - not a 20GB installation
1
Free Flowing C++ IDE

72
Rich features
68
Crossplatform
46
Plugins(Git, SVN)
37
Extensible
34
Easy to use
33
PHP Support
32
Java support
27
File History
21
Code analysis
16
MySQL support
12
Open source
10
Free
9
Code completion
8
Strong Maven Support
8
NodeJs support
6
Best
6
Webdev king
5
Easy maven project start
3
Mandatory
3
Jira Plugin
3
History of changes, friendly tabs
3
Foss
2
Native Nette support
2
I don't like NetBeans
2
Smarty support
2
Groovy support
2
Intuitive ui
2
Chrome plugin to live update javascript from browser
2
Out of the box integration with maven, git, svn
2
Custom html tags support
1
Composer commands inside IDE
1
Visual GUI Builder for Swing / AWT

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Cons of CLion

Cons of NetBeans IDE

2
No good support for Makefiles
1
Not free, unless you are a student

2
PHP debug doesn't support conditional breakpoints

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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.

What is NetBeans IDE?

NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

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What are some alternatives to CLion and NetBeans IDE?

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

Eclipse

Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation. Click here to file a bug against Eclipse Platform.

ReSharper

It is a popular developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. It automates most of what can be automated in your coding routines. It finds compiler errors, runtime errors, redundancies, and code smells right as you type, suggesting intelligent corrections for them.

AppCode

It is an integrated development environment for Swift, Objective-C, C, C++, and JavaScript development built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA platform. It takes care of your routine tasks and saves you from extra typing.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

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