> I admit the C/C++ build setup has deterred me from prototyping at times. I don't understand how that can be a barrier to entry. There are plenty of free ID

> I admit the C/C++ build setup has deterred me from prototyping at times. I don't understand how that can be a barrier to entry. There are plenty of free IDEs which already create ready-to-go projects, and build systems such as cmake make it quite trivial to setup a C++ project from scratch. Case in point: project(foo LANGUAGES CXX) add_executable(foo main.cpp) https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/tutorial/A%20Basic%20Starting%20Point.html https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/tutorial/A%20Basic...