It’s now time for 2019.2! CLion roadmap
Hi,
We’ve recently just released CLion 2019.1! It has been served up with several major improvements, like Clangd-based code highlighting, integration with ClangFormat, project-model-independent build targets and run/debug configurations (especially useful for compilation database and Makefiles projects), memory view in the debugger, injected languages, and not to forget of course some initial Embedded Development support. Release time is always exciting, and we are enormously inspired by all your positive feedback and kind words!
There are still a couple of glitches and regressions, but we are planning to sort them out with the first bug-fix update. Right now, it feels like a good time to give our sincerest thanks to the most active evaluators and share with you all our plans for v2019.2.
Special thanks
There are so many possible setups and configurations where CLion is used nowadays, that we may sometimes miss some of them during testing. This is why our Early Access Preview program is so helpful to us, and we greatly appreciate all the help of our evaluators! There is an ongoing tradition to thank our most active EAP evaluators here in the blog and present each of them with a full 1-year subscription to CLion (as a new subscription or extend their current one). This time we’d like to issue a special thanks to the following contributors:
- Victor Sergienko
- Renat Khayretdinov
- Dmytro Nezhevenko
- Erik Hyun
You will receive a personal email with details on how to claim your license. (If, for some reason, you do not get an email from us within a week, ping us here in the comments!)
CLion 2019.2 roadmap
Our general areas of focus for this year will stick closely to the same as announced previously. A detailed plan for the next cycle looks as follows:
- Editor Responsiveness and Performance
We have some major architectural changes planned, which on the one hand could take longer than a single release cycle, but on the other hand, it will definitely improve the performance of many of the actions across the whole IDE. This should eliminate a big chunk of the existing UI freezes.
- Further integration of Clangd-based C++ language engine
- Improve the accuracy and put back the ‘Unused includes’ diagnostic
- Move more of the IDE’s actions to Clangd-based engine (we are currently experimenting with a few and seeing how it goes)
- Bug-fixes and engine performance tuning
- C++ language support
- Action to switch header/source (reworking current go to related symbol action) – CPP-12920
- Continue with refactoring fixes, especially the Move refactoring
- Embedded Development
- Peripheral view for ARM devices (support for SVD files)
- Support for custom gdbservers (ST-Link and J-Link GDB Servers)
- Debugger
- Continue with the ongoing work on the Windows debugger (for MSVC). This debugger is being implemented from scratch and is based on LLDB. We hope to have a preview ready for v2019.2, but can’t promise anything at this stage.
- Improve current memory view
- Project Model
- The ongoing work to create a project model API to allow 3rd-party plugin writers add support for currently unsupported build systems will continue during this release.
- Another direction is to start Makefiles support. Saying this, we are giving no promises regarding v2019.2, but just want to assure you that this is under careful investigation and analysis from our side.
- Remote
- Various enhancements in remote development and an ability to launch the application automatically under gdbserver via ssh for remote debug (CPP-7050).
That’s it! Do you have any new feature requests? Send them to our tracker. We’re listening!
Your CLion Team
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