Choose Editor/IDE

Lesson overview

Topics covered: Comparison of VS Code, Code::Blocks, Dev-C++ for C development.

Editors and IDEs

• VS Code with ms-vscode.cpptools extension
• Code::Blocks - free IDE with GCC
• Dev-C++ - uses MinGW
• CLion - commercial, excellent C/C++ support

Recommendation: VS Code is free, fast, cross-platform.

Article author: Arthur Isaev