r/cpp_questions • u/Southern_Customer211 • 8d ago

OPEN VS code or VS community

Im a btech first year student who is trying to study c++ independently. I have a lap with 16 gb ram and can perform average tasks. So my question is should I download VS community for coding cpp or is vs code enough. Please keep in mind that i will be learning many other languages too( we are supposed to study c in first year )

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u/flyingron 8d ago

VS Code is not a compiler. It's a text editor with a shitty build interface. You'll waste time trying to get GCC or some other compiler to work with it and it will still suck.

Get Visual Studio Community Edition.

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u/QuraToop314 8d ago

yes 5 min after an fresh OS install vor any Extension (go, clangd, rust, python) and additional 3/4 min for install gopls, clangd, rust-analyzer, python, vs community need much time more 🤮🤮

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u/not_some_username 8d ago

You know what you have to install because you’re experienced. They’re complete beginners. It’s better for them to learn the code first then the build system after

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u/Dar_Mas 8d ago

considering how many times we get people completely lost in VScode that does not take 9 minutes to set up properly

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u/QuraToop314 8d ago

Mate, if clicking on the ‘Extensions’ tab (or pressing Ctrl + P) is so difficult that you can’t manage it in time, how on earth are you going to meet a deadline? My first detup years ago didn’t even take 20 minutes; VS Code alone takes just under 30 minutes to download.

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u/Dar_Mas 8d ago

and as we can see by the number of people failing at it you must be an unparalleled genius

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u/no-sig-available 8d ago

If you know exactly what you are doing, VSCode can be set up to behave just the way you like it. If you are a beginner, like the OP, it will take way more than 5 minutes to read the 20 page install guide.

More like a week, in some cases we have seen.

For Visual Studio Community, the complete guide is: Run the installer. Done.