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by jcelerier 1887 days ago
> How is VS Code so popular, if its big brother Visual Studio can do everything it does and more?

I only know extremely few people who'd use VS Code for C++, so "popular" is really ecosystem-dependent

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I use it. VS Code+clangd intellisense makes it easy to enumerate available classes, functions, and members, and because you don’t have to remember excessively verbose objects, writing self-documenting C++ is simple. Plus, you get automatic syntax checking as you go. That you can get these in a less-than-IDE nowadays is wonderful.