I can testify to JetBrains products, they're quite good. I haven't used CLion in a few years because I don't like depending on a dev tooling that costs money. I

I can testify to JetBrains products, they're quite good. I haven't used CLion in a few years because I don't like depending on a dev tooling that costs money. I use VSCode because I hop between Python, Bash, Go, C, and C++. That being said, CLion definitely offers a much better debugging experience, even when VSCode has all the right plugins.