I'm stuck working on windows at $currentCompany, and my experience with visual studio is that every other IDE I tried is:
- More stable
- Faster
- More intuitive UI wise (well not all but most)
Clion is generally much more flexible and with better features.
Regarding SLN files vs cmake, well, I'd like to know how you deal with them, because the "GUI" that vs is struggles to deal with property sheet so hard I've resorted to using wsl to grep for whatever files add the dependencies that I need. Also, the idea of filters to show the code in a structured would be smart if, you know, filesysyems did not have directories. Oh and with cmake adding a file does not require adding 5 GUIDs in 10 different XML files for every single configuration.
I think the only thing I prefer in VS is that you can debut multiple targets at once, but I have not looked whether clion can do that
Heavily depends on what you do and how big you are