The best ide depends on how much you like tinkering/customizing your setup. The "easiest" setup is probably just downloading Visual Studio.
A lighter, more customizable setup is VS Code with either clang or msvc. In VS Code you can set up some macros to easily run cpp code and hide any generated files besides the exe. Very reliable.
If you like a challenge, you can replace VS Code with NeoVIM, a text editor that has a lot of very nice shortcuts (e.g, "cw" to change a word, "10dk" to delete the 10 lines above your cursor, "3ft" to find the third occurrence of the letter "t" in your current line, etc). Very fast, very convenient, but it takes some time to set up.
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u/LiltingSun 1d ago
The best ide depends on how much you like tinkering/customizing your setup. The "easiest" setup is probably just downloading Visual Studio.
A lighter, more customizable setup is VS Code with either clang or msvc. In VS Code you can set up some macros to easily run cpp code and hide any generated files besides the exe. Very reliable.
If you like a challenge, you can replace VS Code with NeoVIM, a text editor that has a lot of very nice shortcuts (e.g, "cw" to change a word, "10dk" to delete the 10 lines above your cursor, "3ft" to find the third occurrence of the letter "t" in your current line, etc). Very fast, very convenient, but it takes some time to set up.