The gap it fixes

CMake Plus (JetBrains Marketplace id 12869), 57,780 downloads, paid subscription, vendor Artsiom Chapialiou. The same vendor's free sibling plugin ("CMake simple highlighter", 254k downloads) had its command-argument highlighting moved behind the paid plugin, which drew complaints about the business model on top of real bugs. Verbatim reviewer complaints:

"The new version makes the IDE unresponsive and is really slow." (Jacob Hatami, 2023-11)
Two separate reviews (2021-12, 2022-10) from the same user reporting "License not found" after repeated reactivation.
A real GitHub issue against the vendor's own repo: the plugin crashes on startup after purchasing a license, "Access Denied" -- "Plugin 'artsiomch.cmake.plus' failed to initialize and will be disabled".
An upsell notification on every IDE boot, "with the intent to annoy you/influence you psychologically."

Facts and pricing

Category: DevOps
Pricing: Free
Platform: IntelliJ-family
First published: 2026-08-27
Marketplace ID: #33339
Repository: cmake-companion
Growth: ▲ +488.9% since 2026-08-18 (18→106)

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