[sumanthvepa]

Of all the languages I use C/C++ have the least need for paid tools.

I use emacs(and vim), make and Boost's b2 build system for most of my programming. Although on Windows, Visual Studio is a joy to use. On Linux I use gdb. Works fine. I also use static analysers and valgrind. But I come from a tradition of Unix and living on the command line.

I've tried CLion, because I pay for IntelliJ IDEA for other programming (I also have to write Javascript, and Python) But while its nice, there is nothing there that I couldn't do without.

If you stick to C++ standard libraries, Boost, and turn on all warnings, and are reasonably competent, you won't encounter any bugs that are so serious that your program crashes inexplicably.