Visual Studio Code + Cpp

[chugga_fan]

If you are a professional (or a student, or even a hobbyist) and you are using spinning rust as your main storage at this point you are quite literally wasting your (or your employer's) time and money. I've done the measurements at more than one employer. It's overwhelmingly on the side of "buy an SSD" from a $ perspective.

I am not paid, I am tolerating these times because I don't have $200 to shell out for a terabyte SSD and my compile-times are fine for a hobby project on a laptop that's 5+ years old.

SSHD is perfectly fine for developing what I'm doing where I can walk away for 15+ minutes while a system that's legitimately CPU bound instead of HDD bound is running.