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Comment by markus_zhang | Hacker News Reader

My experience with hobbyist C programming in VSCode (with C/C++ extension) is yet to match the experience of hobbyist C++ programming in VS. I'll try out CLion someday.

The biggest issues I noticed are:

- Lack of error indication e.g. used an indeclared variable

- Intellisense meh

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There is an intellisense alternative for VS Code called clangd (made by LLVM developers) you might want to try, I use it heavily. You don´t need to use clang as your compiler. It scans my CMake output to perform indexing.

Thanks! Gonna try it out. Does it conflict with the official C/C++ extension?

You need to disable intelligence (there is a popup)

The C/C++ extension actually uses the same underlying engine as VS's C++ IntelliSense. If you're missing things like error indicators then it's likely you just need to configure it a bit more precisely- VS Code has a bunch of ways to do that, but they're all sort of DIY, while VS's is set up out of the box if you're using its project format or CMake support.

As another comment said, try Clangd, it's IMHO superior to intellisense on VSCode and supports anything that can emit `compile_commands.json`files.

Thanks man. TBH I never dug deep into those json files. I need to take a look.

CLion is pretty good! If you like JetBrians IDE's, you'll like CLion.

Thanks, I do! I use Pycharm and Datagrip a lot in my current life, both are excellent.

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