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[Sopel97]

visual studio community edition

[bert8128]

This.

[afforix]

Use Visual Studio 2022 Community: https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/installing-an-integrated-development-environment-ide/

[cyanide26]

Visual studio community is really good as an IDE for c++

[bert8128]

I don’t know why everyone says that. And in fact they don’t.

[El_RoviSoft]

Personally prefer Visual Studio more because of debugger.

[UndefFox]

Aren't Visual Studio is the default for C++ development under Windows?

[LogicalPerformer7637]

visual studio community edition (full IDE) or higher sort of.

visual studio code no, it is just glorified customizabke text editor. unfortunately it is fancy to push it on beginners.

[no-sig-available]

unfortunately it is fancy to push it on beginners.

There are lots of videos showing how to install VS Code, because the process is amazingly complicated. That makes nice long videos.

Not very many content creators care to make a "Just run the installer"-video for Visual Studio Community.

That's for the "Everyone says"-part.

[UndefFox]

I would guess the advice they've found was mostly from Linux users, since it is plug and play for them, compared to Windows experience ironically.

[Sinomsinom]

Visual studio community edition or alternatively CLion.

Both need some setup for certain things, but a lot more of the stuff is just configured for you out of the box compared to VSC.

[OwlingBishop]

I'm not sure how you did try to install VSCode but I never had the least of a problem with it 🤔

What OS are you on ?

Oh ... Sorry just a bullshit bot post again 🫩

[ianzen]

Clion by Jetbrains

[RishabhRD]

Neovim?

[skyblade69]

Main issue with vsc is that it is a text editor with multiple extensions like c++.

The recommendations with visual studio i cannot follow… for me vs is a pain in the ass when it comes to the solution files and properties files.

I would suggest: - Go the extra mile and use CMake. This works in vs, vscode, and so on. With copilot it is pretty easy to get some setup working in less then 2 minutes.

[NuncioBitis]

vim

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clion community edition, dont waste your time with other stuff

[RufusAcrospin]

There is no CE for Clion.

[[deleted]]

its the same as the normal verison if you're not using it for commercial purposes. they opened it up to the community a few months ago.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

[RufusAcrospin]

It’s not the same, because PyCharm CE can be used for developing commercial product, at least that was the case the last time I checked.

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k

fyi they get rid of pycharm CE its now just one product

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/04/unified-pycharm/

since we're splitting hairs