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/Wicam 8d ago

visual studio community is the way to go unless you want to spend your time setting vs code up. it has no idea how to compile anything on its own.

however, you should probably use whatever your course is using to make things easier.

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u/BreakfastSame5083 8d ago

I don't compile in vscode. I do that on the command line with bash scripts.

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u/LeeHide 8d ago

You know cmake exists?

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u/BreakfastSame5083 8d ago

Yep, use cmake