I’ll let somebody more experienced to chime in on cmake and organizing c++ project builds, but vscode has decent built in shell where you could just run the com

I’ll let somebody more experienced to chime in on cmake and organizing c++ project builds, but vscode has decent built in shell where you could just run the commands you need without leaving the ide. There’s way less philosophy to vscode than to emacs, i would suggest using it as dumb editor for a while and explore how various extensions make your life easier. If they don’t - maybe you just got your eMacs config right and should stick to it :)