I've used KDevelop and QtCreator to write C++, and they had pretty good auto-completion and semantic information way before clang came along. Example, these bl

I've used KDevelop and QtCreator to write C++, and they had pretty good auto-completion and semantic information way before clang came along. Example, these blog posts from 2009 showing that KDevelop already had semantic highlighting, smart auto-completion, quick fixes and whatnot https://zwabel.wordpress.com/ https://zwabel.wordpress.com/ KDevelop had its own C++ parser at the time, and it was quite good. Same for QtCreator. They both moved to use libclang much later.