Not the OP, but having used both Visual Studio and CLion, Visual Studio is far ahead. For one thing, Visual Studio includes a better front end for code completion (EDG front end) and is able to handle complicated c++ constructs much better than CLion. The debugger also has some more refinement. In addition, Visual Studio has a built in profiler that is very simple to use. I would say that CLion is more comparable to Visual Studio Code with the C++ plug-in than full Visual Studio.