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Written by Jan Ekholm on 2024-10-14 at 13:27

I like CLion for C++ code, it's the best C++ IDE that I've seen so far. it at least tries to understand the code and provides pretty good auto completions.

But it has so many bugs and so much random slowdowns. There's absolutely no reason for an IDE today to have even a slight hiccup when doing something, let alone 5-10 seconds of pauses. I get these errors every minute or so while doing normal editing.

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Written by Jan Ekholm on 2024-10-14 at 13:31

The errors show up as an error icon that can be clicked to expand to the error report shown in the screenshot, so they are not intrusive. Still, they cause these hiccups and temporary losses of functionality while CLion tries to get back on track.

This is an "early access" version and issues are to be expected, but the issues could get fixed a bit more rapidly. One would assume that the internals of Jetbrain's products should be really mature by now and not break this easily.

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Written by Jan Ekholm on 2024-10-14 at 13:34

Still the best C++ IDE, but it needs some bug fixing love in order to not be annoying.

Oh, and when I refactor something in my code, there's absolutely no reason to expand the refactoring operation into code I just happen to use, like Boost. It makes refactoring operations usually fail because they end up being "too complex" for CLIon to handle, even in cases where I'm just dragging a file to a new subfolder.

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Written by Jan Ekholm on 2024-10-14 at 13:38

Crashes are uncommon though, but they happen. I tend to restart at least daily when it gets evident that CLIon has become messed up internally. Not a big deal as it's pretty quick to start. It's not a Javascript app after all!

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Written by Raptor :gamedev: on 2024-10-14 at 14:07

@chakie I had nothing but problems with the latest release, not to mention I absolutely despise the new UI, I dropped back to my current fallback version of 2024.1 and all the backend errors and slowness went away again, every problem seems to be related to the new features/UI that's forced on in 2024.2.

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Written by Jan Ekholm on 2024-10-14 at 14:08

@raptor85 I don’t mind the new UI that much. What don’t you like about it if we disregard the slowness and bugs?

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Written by Raptor :gamedev: on 2024-10-14 at 14:21

@chakie it hid a lot of things behind menu's and doesn't play well with the window manager, (tries to hide file menu/toolbar and combine them up top). Doesn't let me pin toolbars anymore for multi-monitor/workspace use either. Basically it's no one big glaring thing but a million tiny little things that now take twice as long because i have to scroll around or click a hamburger menu for something that used to be always visible.

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Written by Jan Ekholm on 2024-10-15 at 07:47

@raptor85 Yeah, I can see that would be annoying as it was disrupting something you were used to do. I tend to stay with the default layout most of the time.

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