CLion Starts the 2022.3 EAP With the CMake Integration at a Next Level

From August 31 to September 16, 2022, I attended three conferences in a row: NDC TechTown in Kongsberg, Norway; CoreC++ in Tel Aviv, Israel; and finally, CppCon in Aurora, Colorado, USA. NDC TechTown and CoreC++ are both in-person conferences, while CppCon is a hybrid event: you can attend either in person or online. I chose to attend all three conferences in person. NDC TechTown (August 31 – September 1, 2022) Core C++ (September 6–7, 2022) CppCon (September 12–16 2022) NDC TechTown (August 31 – September 1, 2022) The first stop of my conference marathon was NDC TechTown, an event I h

The urgent CLion bug-fix update 2022.2.3 is now available. In CLion 2022.2.2 we unfortunately introduced an issue that caused the IDE to crash when Python interpreters were configured (PY-56176). As the source code for the issue is located in a plugin bundled into CLion, simply updating the plugin doesn’t solve the problem. Thus, we’ve prepared a new CLion update with the fix for you. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused, and we are now reviewing our development and release process to make sure it won’t happen again. Download build 222.4167.35 from our website, via the Toolbox

We’ve returned with all of the news from June, July, and August 2022 in our latest C++ Annotated digest. We’ve kept silent for a while, and despite these three months being less busy than the rest of the year for many, they were still jam-packed full of awesome news. So, expect today’s digest to be a bit longer than usual. Language news C++23 is in feature freeze C23 is huge Conferences The Tragedy of C++ and the Carbon language from C++North Learning Inline – not what it used to be Memory allocators and bad APIs Using the C++23 std::expected type Writing an open-so

The CLion 2022.2.2 bug-fix update has been released. Build 222.4167.25 is available from our website, via the Toolbox App, as a snap for Ubuntu, or via patch from the IDE itself. DOWNLOAD CLION Below are the highlights of this update: Refactoring: We fixed a bug that was causing a duplicate name to appear when performing the Rename refactoring (CPP-14772). Code analysis: We removed the incorrect Local variable is never used warning which appeared in the range-based for loop (CPP-30074). Toolchains: CLion now correctly collects compiler information for Clang-cl when cross-c

CLion is an IDE that offers a lot of features to help developers. It shows documentation popups, detects mistakes on the fly, suggests fixes, and more. An internal code analyzer always works in the background, analyzing C and C++ code as you type. C and C++ are challenging languages for automatic analyzers because compiler-specific data is required to parse the code correctly. The engine needs to know the header search paths, predefined macro definitions, and some other details. For a predefined set of known compilers, CLion runs the project's compiler with special options and gathers the req

Today we are going to talk to Jean-François (JF) Milants, the main contributor to the InfiniTime project, open-source firmware for the Pine64 PineTime smartwatch. Hi Jean-François, can you please tell us about the InfiniTime project? What is it about in a nutshell? How did it get started? InfiniTime is open-source firmware for the PineTime smartwatch. It provides notifications, a timer, alarm, heart rate sensor, step counting, and a couple of games. It started as a personal project when Pine64 announced their intention to launch a new device, PineTime, as a community project. They sent deve

Now it’s time to share what the team will be focusing on over the coming months and is aiming to deliver in 2022.3.

From July 18–20, 2022, I attended C++North, a new international C++ conference in Toronto, Canada. The first edition of this conference was eagerly anticipated, and it did not disappoint. Compared to some other C++ conferences, it was not a huge event – there were only about 180 attendees on site – but it was certainly a very high quality event. C++North grew out of the Toronto C++ User Group, and these local community roots were very noticeable, in a good way. The organizers were clearly proud of being able to host the conference on their home turf. Every morning started with a land acknowle

On July 25, 2022, the ISO C++ committee (also known as WG21) met via Zoom for a virtual plenary session. This plenary session was remarkable for two reasons. First, this was our last virtual meeting before we finally return to meeting in-person – the next meeting is scheduled for November 2022 in Kona, Hawaii. Second, it was the last meeting for approving new features for the upcoming C++23 standard. This means that as of now, C++23 is in feature freeze. The exciting news is that a lot of great features have made the cut! Thanks to the tireless work of the paper authors and committee subgroup