CLion vs Vagrant

CLion vs Vagrant: 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; Vagrant: A tool for building and distributing development environments. Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

CLion belongs to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack, while Vagrant can be primarily classified under "Virtual Machine Management".

Some of the features offered by CLion are:

• Smart Editor
• Code Generation
• CMake

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

• Boxes
• Up And SSH
• Synced Folders

"Good editor" is the top reason why over 21 developers like CLion, while over 354 developers mention "Development environments" as the leading cause for choosing Vagrant.

Vagrant is an open source tool with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.74K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Vagrant's open source repository on GitHub.

Airbnb, Coursera, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use Vagrant, whereas CLion is used by Codealike, Zscaler, and EXANTE. Vagrant has a broader approval, being mentioned in 802 company stacks & 475 developers stacks; compared to CLion, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.