I'd recommend starting in VSCode with the MS C/C++ plugin (this works across Windows, Linux and macOS) and do the very first steps without a build system (the V

I'd recommend starting in VSCode with the MS C/C++ plugin (this works across Windows, Linux and macOS) and do the very first steps without a build system (the VSCode C/C++ plugin has some support for building single-file projects). Or just build in the terminal with: cc hello.c -o hello After those first steps I would recommend installing the MS CMake Tools extensions (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/docs/README.md https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/do...), this automatically discovers CMakeLists.txt files in the project and then uses those to setup build- and debugging targets and configure the C/C++ language server / Intellisense. I prefer this setup because it is more 'transparent' than a 'fat IDE' like Visual Studio, Xcode or CLion, but YMMV of course :)