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22 Best Free C/C++ IDEs and Editors for Linux in 2026 (www.tecmint.com)

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've worked years in vim with plugins, but keeing it up with plugins working, that are not maintained anymore was quite a pain.

It was the most perfect IDE I had though.

After that, I've tried CLion, because I quickly needed something that worked with really large projects.

But with every update it got worse.

Currently I'm on zed and kinda happy with it.
There is still some stuff I'm missing and their focus on AI seems to overpower necessary features like multi windows - which is my main concern, as I need those badly.

But I'm too over worked to actually setup a new vim/neovim environment and don't really know where to go...

Edit: many co workers went to VS Code, I'm spoiled with the search function of CLion.
Editing interfaces just by searching and replacing/extending existing code was a breeze. Didn't find this anywhere else...