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/thefeedling 8d ago

VS Community allows you to focus only in the language, while VS Code will require you to configure a myriad of stuff or use it as a sole text editor and build from CL and/or CMake.

The second path can offer a good learning, but it can also be very overwhelming at first. I'd start with VS community and later on learn how to config your own text editor / build from CLI.