[repelsteeltje]

Nope, I use a compiler to compile, a makefile to drive the compiler an editor to edit and bash to control them all.

Do you compile with an IDE?

There used to be tools that built compiler, runtime, debugger and editor all into a single monolithic hammer, like 4D in late '90s (FourthDimension). There is excel, of course. Nice for prototyping, but very clunky if you want for build and maintain professional software packages that are easy to test and to deploy.

If visual studio were the only way to use Visual C++, we'd long ago abandoned cross platform development.