CLion comes with powerful debugger integration, giving you access to backend debuggers such as GDB and LLDB via a uniform UI. The IDE helps you debug efficiently with its built-in variables view, a variety of stepping and breakpoints options, evaluation of expressions, and memory and assembler views. With CLion 2020.3 EAP, we’ve added a new powerful option to control the execution flow during debugging – Set Execution Point. You might be aware of this feature if you’ve ever used Set Next Statement in Visual Studio or Jump to Line in IntelliJ IDEA. In brief, it allows you to move the execution

Our latest global developer survey shows that Google Test, Catch2, and Boost.Test are the three most popular frameworks for unit testing. CLion supports all of these, as well as doctest. We also know that CMake is the most trending project model in the C++ world. CTest, a testing tool distributed as part of CMake, is used to automate unit testing, which entails running tests and uploading the results to a dashboard. Looking at CTest as a CMake-specific test runner, you may think of it as something similar to CLion’s built-in test runner (even though it isn’t quite a straightforward comparison)

There are many useful changes and improvements planned for CLion 2020.3, and today we are ready to share some of them with you. CLion officially starts the 2020.3 Early Access Program today! For those who just joined us, EAP builds are free and valid for 1 month, so you don’t need an active subscription to try them out. However, the quality of EAP builds is usually lower than that of releases. If you are wondering why taking part in an EAP is worth your while, please see this nice explanation by the WebStorm team. DOWNLOAD CLION 2020.3 EAP Build 203.3645.37 is available from our website, via t

We hope you had a chance to join us in our virtual room at CppCon 2020. The productivity demo by Phil Nash was recorded, so if you missed it live you can check it out now. 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Project models intro 01:23 - Create New Class 02:09 - Rename 03:30 - Auto-import 04:10 - Code generation: generate constructor 05:10 - Clang-Tidy 05:51 - Code generation: operator generation 07:08 - Navigation through the code 08:10 - Search Everywhere 09:40 - Find Action 10:50 - Reformat Code 11:19 - Local History 12:30 - Questions time Check out JetBrains TV channel on YouTube for other product relat

CLion 2020.2.2 (build 202.7319.62) is now available! You can download it from our website, via Toolbox App, or as a snap (for Ubuntu). A patch update will be available shortly. DOWNLOAD CLION Here are the main highlights: Fixed authentication when invoking remote operations in GitHub (IDEA-248658). Some extra compiler names like clang-11 are now supported in the compilation database (CPP-20753). Fixed the crash that was happening in the debugger on the Windows for Visual C++ toolchain, for example on doctest code. This means that debugging doctest executables is now possible (CPP-21008).

The CppCon conference will be taking place fully online this year. And of course the JetBrains C++ team wouldn’t dream of missing the biggest C++ community event of the year! We’ll join CppCon 2020 with a one-day virtual room hosted by CppCon over Remo on Thursday, September 17. And the great thing is that our CppCon virtual room is open to everyone! What’s in the room: 08:40–08:55 MDT (16:40–16.55 CEST), Supercharge Your Productivity with Just a Few Easy CLion Tricks, demo by Phil Nash. 10:00–10:30 MDT (18:00–18:30 CEST), Q&A with the CLion team. 11:30–12:00 MDT (19:30–20:00 CEST), Q&

Hi, We normally start September off with an announcement about our conference trip, our yearly tour of community events. This is an exclusive opportunity for us to meet our users in person, show them a tip or two on how to use our C++ tools, help them with their issues and their questions, and learn from them. 2020 has been challenging for all of us. Offline events, with their tremendous networking value, are on-hold. On the bright side, a new world of online events is evolving, and our C++ team is adapting to this brave new world! What took place in June – August In July, C++ Russia Moscow tr

Many developers are playing with Arduino-based projects these days. Arduino is easy to get started with, and the experience of seeing the outcome of your coding efforts in a light blinking or robot moving is delightful. But most of these Arduino developers don’t move forward. They keep working on their projects as weekend warriors, treating them simply as small hobbies and side projects. In this series of blog posts we’d like to explore how you can bring your pet projects to a more professional level and how IDEs like CLion can help you do that. What we’re going to build We’ve set ourselves an

You are probably already aware that we recently released CLion 2020.2 with support for Makefile projects, doctest, updates to the Google Test and Catch2 integrations, dangling pointer checks and other code analysis checks, better C++20 standard compliance, and more. Today we’re making the first bug-fix update for the release available, CLion 2020.2.1 (build 202.6948.80). It is now available for download from our website, using the Toolbox App, or as a snap (for Ubuntu). A patch update will be available shortly. DOWNLOAD CLION Here are the main highlights: A major performance issue with Clangd

CLion has just been given a massive update from 2020.2, with Makefile project support, more C++20 features supported, new code analysis checks, Doctest framework integration, and much more. We have even more planned for the next release. Let’s take a look at what we have in store for the fall. Special thanks Before we move on to our plans for 2020.3, let’s follow our tradition of thanking everyone who has helped us identify various issues, usability glitches, and missing features during the Early Access Program. Thank you all! Without your contributions we would have never been able to have su

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CLion 2020.2 covers a wider variety of C and C++ projects by introducing a top-voted feature – Makefiles projects support, and makes modern C++ coding easier.