Visual Studio with VAX (http://www.wholetomato.com/features/default.asp http://www.wholetomato.com/features/default.asp) is more than sufficient. The general ob

Visual Studio with VAX (http://www.wholetomato.com/features/default.asp http://www.wholetomato.com/features/default.asp) is more than sufficient. The general objection to it historically has been "it's not free", but Visual Studio Code is Electron.io/node based, free, works on 3 of the major platforms, MSFT is in the process of enabling first-party support for using LLVM (I'm not sure if this is for the "Code" version of the traditional executable base --which is also available for free in the "Express" mind you) so that excuse isn't really valid anymore. If you're writing C# and not C++, then Resharper from IntelliJ is going to do you better probably. Speaking of which, JetBrain's CLion is way better than VIM w/r/t refactoring, intellisense, auto-complete, etc, not too surprising really since that's what they're famous for. Refactoring C in general is really trivial compared to the template messes I'd imagine a compiler would struggle with though. I'm not sure if they have a community edition but they offer 30 day trials IIRC and probably student discounts if you're not yet employed.