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CLion vs Xcode: What are the differences?

Developers describe CLion as "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. On the other hand, Xcode is detailed as "The complete toolset for building great apps". The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building amazing apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

CLion and Xcode belong to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by CLion are:

Smart Editor
Code Generation
CMake

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

Source Editor
Assistant Editor
Asset Catalog

"Good editor" is the primary reason why developers consider CLion over the competitors, whereas "IOS Development" was stated as the key factor in picking Xcode.

According to the StackShare community, Xcode has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1051 company stacks & 603 developers stacks; compared to CLion, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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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 Xcode?

The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building amazing apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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Why do developers choose CLion?

Why do developers choose Xcode?

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Easy setup
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Good editor
19
Already one of the best C/C++ IDEs, even before launch
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Powerful refactoring, extremely smart IDE
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Clean, Sleek User Interface
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Cross-platform build
11
Much faster and smarter than Intellisense

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IOS Development
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Personal assistant on steroids
28
Easy setup
17
Excellent integration with Clang
1
Built-in everything
1
Beautiful

What are the cons of using CLion?

What are the cons of using Xcode?

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2
Massively bloated and complicated for smaller projects

What companies use CLion?

What companies use Xcode?

What are some alternatives to CLion and Xcode?

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.

NetBeans IDE

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

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.

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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How developers use CLion and Xcode

Ryan VanBelkum uses

Xcode

Even though React Native takes care of most of the heavy lifting, there are still some cases where we need xcode. These cases include app icon integration, mobile deployments, loading screens, ect...

Marc3842h uses

CLion

CLion is used to build shiro.

It is the primary IDE for development on shiro and the source control repository comes with predefined scripts for easy development and testing of shiro.

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Refractal uses

Xcode

Xcode is our primary development platform for iOS applications, with a very fully featured set of dev tools for the platform. For everything else, there's Sublime Text 3.