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Do you use VS Code? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have not used an IDE since I ditched Turbo Pascal in middle school, but now I am at a place where everyone and their mother uses VS Code and so I'm giving it a shot.

The thing is, I'm finding the "just works" mantra is not true at all. Nothing is working out of the box. And then for each separate extension I have to figure out how to fix it. Or I just give up and circumvent it by using the terminal.

What's even the point then?

IDK maybe its a matter of getting used to something new, but I was doing fine with just vim and tmux.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Depends on the language. C/C++/C# I never manage to make it work. Rust works incredibly well. Python needs some small fixing on the paths but works good too. Java needs a lot of fixing, sometimes I make it work, others not.

C# and java are both much easier to set up in an IDE (VS and eclipse (ew)) respectively. C/C++ are just hard to set up, I don't think it's much harder than CLion.

So except java and C#, every language is as easy to set up as any other editor/IDE.

I only use vim to edit config files through ssh, so I don't know how it works for actual development. However, I doubt it is easier than vs code.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

For C++ I found the clangd plugin to be the secret. Just install that and get your build to output a compile_commands.json in your build folder. That is easy to do with cmake but most other setups can do it too. The plugin will find that after a clean build. Then it will magically index your whole project.

[–] gears 1 points 1 month ago

I use vscode everyday with gdb and gcc (and gdbserver.) it works well, but does require some set up.