Are you interested in embedded development? In this guest blog post Nick Brook, founder at NRB Tech, shows how to use CLion for nRF52. IoT consultant and founder at NRB Tech. Nick founded NRB Tech in 2018 to build useful and sustainable IoT products through a combination of in-depth hardware, software and user experience expertise. Nordic's nRF52 series of Bluetooth Low Energy System-on-Chips (SoCs) are versatile and widely used in IoT products, supporting many different applications. Nordic provides a very comple

Wondering how to add a package to your C++ project? In this guest blog post Javier G. Sogo from JFrog shares how to start with Conan package manager in CLion. Javier G. Sogo @jgsogo Software Engineer at JFrog After several years of C++ development, I moved to Python to learn the best practices and tools. Now I’m back building Conan, the C/C++ package manager. Writing a C++ project from scratch is always a delightful challenge. Starting from a blank page writing your code and creating your functionalities, all the way through to building on top of solid and high-performan

Hi, This is a second guest blog post by Ilya Motornyy about programming for microcontrollers in CLion. CLion for Embedded Development Part I CLion for Embedded Development Part III: OpenOCD debugger support and integration with STM32CubeMX is available out of the box in CLion Upd. An alternative approach from Klaus Nagel in a small demo project on GitHub: Embedded Development on STM32 with CLion and the Segger Tools. Ilya Motornyy Java/JavaScript Developer at Vaadin.com DIY Electronics and Embedded Programming Enthusiast History About one and a half

In this interview, Anastasia talks to Herb Sutter, a chair of the ISO C++ Standards Committee, a software architect at Microsoft, and the author of the C++ Metaclasses proposal. Blog: Sutter's Mill Metaclasses proposal: Metaclasses: Generative C++ A: Hi Herb! Your proposal on C++ Metaclasses is one of the hottest topics in the evolution of the C++ language (and at the end of the interview our readers can find an official video recording of Herb’s CppCon keynote session dedicated to the topic). H: Thanks, though it’s still a long-term experiment in early stages. I’d emphasize tha

In this interview, Anastasia talks to Matt Godbolt, the creator of Compiler Explorer. Twitter: @mattgodbolt A: Hi, Matt. I first want to congratulate you on the fantastic presentation you did at CppCon in Bellevue (at the end of the interview you can find an official video recording of Matt’s keynotes session). It was inspirational and highly informative! While you share the story of Compiler Explorer in the session, could you briefly talk about the major reasons that made you want to work on it? M: I work in the trading industry where performance can be really important. A friend

Phil Nash has joined us recently as a Developer Advocate for C++, Objective-C and Swift tools. Here we talk to Phil about his experience and interests and introduce him to all of you. Twitter: @phil_nash Blog: levelofindirection GitHub: philsquared A: Hi Phil, and welcome to the JetBrains team! Let’s talk about you. Can you please share a bit about yourself? P: Hi Anastasia. Thanks for having me here. A bit about me? Well, I've been programming since I was 9. Like most who came of programming age in the early 80s, I started with various versions of BASIC on 8-bit home computers (Z

Here comes another interview in our blog. This time we speak with Jon Kalb, CppCon Chair and C++ instructor. Jon Kalb is a freelance C++ instructor and chairs CppCon, C++Now, and the Boost Steering Committee. He has been programming in C++ for over 25 years and has written C++ for Amazon, Apple, Dow Chemical, Intuit, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, and Yahoo! Jon has taught C++ at the graduate school at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and is a Microsoft MVP. Twitter: @_jonkalb (more…)

Hi, Are you interested in embedded development? In this guest blog post our user Ilya Motornyy shares his experience in programming for microcontrollers in CLion. CLion for Embedded Development Part II CLion for Embedded Development Part III: OpenOCD debugger support and integration with STM32CubeMX is available out of the box in CLion Ilya Motornyy Java/JavaScript Developer at Vaadin.com DIY Electronics and Embedded Programming Enthusiast. Introduction CLion is a relatively new IDE for C/C++, based on very popular IntelliJ Platform, and hopefully it inherits most

CppCast, a famous podcast for C++ developers hosted by Rob Irving and Jason Turner, welcomes back Anastasia Kazakova, CLion Product Marketing Manager. Last time we met a year ago, before CLion 1.0 was launched, and talked about CLion's goals, hopes and expectations. Now we meet again to overview CLion's first year. Some topics discussed in this episode include: Main changes and events for CLion and the C++ team in JetBrains over this year. General trends in how CLion's features are used. Discussion of CLion's user base. Any option to get CLion licenses for free? What's next on the

Last week our team participated in the ACCU conference in Bristol, which was extremely interesting. Thanks everyone who visited our booth, hope you've learned a couple of useful tips from us or maybe even won a license ;) In this interview we speak with ACCU 2016 Chair - Russel Winder. Russel is an independent consultant, analyst, author, trainer and an expert on Java, C++, Groovy, Scala, Python, D, Go, Gradle, SCons, and not only: I started out life as a theoretical high energy particle physicist – think doing the theory behind all the stuff being researched on at CERN's LHC. Howeve

Hi everyone, CppCast is declared to be the first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers. It's hosted by Rob Irving, a Senior Software Engineer and Development Team Lead with ALK Technologies in Princeton, NJ. He is a polyglot with experience in C#, Objective-C, Java and Ruby but the majority of his time and expertise is in C++. He has a passion for mobile development and enjoys teaching and speaking on Windows Phone, often focusing on Windows Phone development with C++. CppCast has already talked to Jon Kalb about the C++ language and C++ community; Jason Turner and Ankit Asthana a