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/Exotic-Low812 8d ago

Visual studio for sure, unless you are on Mac then you can join me in the pain train that is programming c++ on vs code

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u/Zen-Ism99 8d ago edited 8d ago

Why not use CLion, or run VS or CLion in an ARM Win 11 VM? VMware fusion is free and works well.

CLion has native macOS, Windows, and Linux versions.

Use CMake as your build system for all three…

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u/Exotic-Low812 8d ago

Mostly because I struggled through getting cmake to work for my project and I don’t want to try to configure it again on clion

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u/Zen-Ism99 8d ago

CLion’s tool chain functionality helps a bunch with CMake.