Jetbrains CLion is great for non-Qt C++, albeit paid. It helped me deliver a bank-exchange-grade connector in a tight schedule with very little knowledge of C (at that time). Mostly with static checking, compiling, cmake etc.

Just in case anyone has missed the news: since May 2025 CLion is free for non-commercial use.

I missed it too

However I guess that in the case of Jetbrains this means you get your code infiltrated and stolen to teach the AI on

I would personally use qtcreator over clion (and in fact, I do) for not qt c/c++ projects.

It’s just a great ide. Using qt has nothing to do with making it a better or worse ide.

No love for KDevelop? :)

Me too.

Until having language specific features really lost to AI auto complete, and now it's some vscode flavor.

Fellow QtCreator user here :)

I agree Qt Creator is really good, and VSCode with the Microsoft C++ extension is probably not quite as good.

However with the Clangd extension it is much much better. Even better than Qt Creator. 100% accurate C++ code intelligence, really really fast error squigglies. Honestly I was kind of surprised it's even possible to get it that good.

It's not quite on the level of Dart (which is basically instant and perfect), but I'd say it's on the same level as Rust at least in terms of responsiveness and reliability.

Qt Creator also supports clangd: https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-preferences-cpp-clangd.h.... Personally, I haven't tried it yet.

Nah, it isn’t much much better. It’s at best the same.

Clangd is clangd. It integrates the same everywhere.

I meant Clangd is better than Qt Creator's native code intelligence. I haven't used it for years so I didn't know it integrates Clangd now.