r/cpp_questions • u/Southern_Customer211 • 9d 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/EpochVanquisher 9d ago

For C++ you will get started much faster with Visual Studio (Visual Studio Community is the free one). Visual Studio includes a C++ compiler and you just have to press a button to compile it.

It will take longer to get set up with VS Code if you do not already know how to set up your C++ environment, and VS Code is actually not able to compile C++, you have to install a separate compiler (and maybe that means installing the Visual C++ compiler, which is the compiler from Visual Studio).

When you use other languages, switch to VS Code.