[jchw]

I think people claiming modern C/C++ tools are close to as good as Go’s are wrong, in my opinion. With that having been said, IMO if you want the C++ experience to be better, use Clangd and generate a compile_commands.json file. For many projects you can use wrappers like compiledb, or Bear, and some build systems like CMake can output it natively. Either way, once you have found a way to do this, and get it outputting into the project root, add a local ignore for it (in .git/info/exclude) and install the VSCode clangd extension.

Truly, it is night and day. I can get Real code intelligence on almost anything, including large C projects with custom Makefiles that compile cross-arch like Wine. It only ever has trouble with unusual translation unit patterns. (You can see this in Higan for example, which has .cpp files including other .cpp files; clangd seemingly fails to put them in the context of the intended translation unit.)

It’s not as good as Go, but it is life-changing for me.