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CLion vs Visual Studio Code: 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; Visual Studio Code: Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
CLion and Visual Studio Code are primarily classified as "Integrated Development Environment" and "Text Editor" tools respectively.
"Good editor" is the primary reason why developers consider CLion over the competitors, whereas "Powerful multilanguage IDE" was stated as the key factor in picking Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio Code is an open source tool with 79.3K GitHub stars and 11.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Visual Studio Code's open source repository on GitHub.
Asana, Microsoft, and Intuit are some of the popular companies that use Visual Studio Code, whereas CLion is used by Codealike, Zscaler, and EXANTE. Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1134 company stacks & 2379 developers stacks; compared to CLion, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.
Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.
Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.
I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!
Pros of CLion
- Good editor29
- Easy setup28
- Already one of the best C/C++ IDEs, even before launch22
- Powerful refactoring, extremely smart IDE22
- Cross-platform build20
- Clean, Sleek User Interface18
- Much faster and smarter than Intellisense17
- Vertically/Horizontally split windows13
- Great navigation, error messages and auto completion12
- Vim plugin9
- Not a 20gb installation8
- It is best IDE5
- Like this one because of - not a 20GB installation3
- Free Flowing C++ IDE2
- Very good Git plugin1
- IDE supports Python with all features of PyCharm CE1
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE327
- Fast293
- Front-end develop out of the box185
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense152
- Very basic but free137
- Git integration117
- Intellisense101
- Faster than Atom74
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration48
- Great Refactoring Tools41
- Good Plugins40
- Terminal38
- Superb markdown support36
- Open Source34
- Extensions28
- Awesome UI26
- Large & up-to-date extension community25
- Powerful and fast22
- Portable20
- Best code editor17
- Best editor16
- Easy to get started with15
- Built on Electron14
- Good for begginers14
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates14
- Crossplatform14
- Lots of extensions13
- All Languages Support13
- Extensions for everything12
- Extensible11
- Useful for begginer11
- Ui design is great11
- Easy to use and learn11
- Faster edit for slow computer11
- Totally customizable11
- Git out of the box10
- "fast, stable & easy to use"10
- Great language support9
- Great community9
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it9
- Fast Startup8
- Powerful Debugger8
- SSH support8
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need8
- Can compile and run .py files7
- Python extension is fast7
- Great document formater7
- Features rich7
- Awesome multi cursor support6
- She is not Rachel6
- He is not Michael6
- VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn5
- Extension Echosystem5
- Language server client5
- Easy azure5
- SFTP Workspace5
- Very proffesional4
- Has better support and more extentions for debugging4
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool3
- Supports lots of operating systems3
- Virtualenv integration3
- 'batteries included'3
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Emmet preinstalled3
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- More tools to integrate with vs2
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Better autocompletes than Atom2
- Light2
- Microsoft1
- Big extension marketplace1
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Cons of CLion
- No good support for Makefiles2
- Not free, unless you are a student2
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup43
- Resource hog at times26
- Poor refactoring20
- Poor UI Designer13
- Microsoft12
- Weak Ui design tools11
- Poor autocomplete10
- Poor in PHP7
- Huge cpu usage with few installed extension6
- Poor at Python5
- Super Slow5
- Poor intellisense. poor java4
- Microsoft sends telemetry data4
- Poor in Python3
- No Built in Browser Preview3
- Dilshad3
- No color Intergrator3
- No built in live Preview3
- Very basic for java development and buggy at times3
- Bad Plugin Architecture2
- It's MicroSoft1
- Electron1
- Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes1
