I hope beginners don't get the impression that all this is needed for developing in C. If you want a free (as in beer) and 'good enough' multi-platform solution

I hope beginners don't get the impression that all this is needed for developing in C. If you want a free (as in beer) and 'good enough' multi-platform solution without tinkering, just use VSCode with 2 extensions: - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod... - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cmake-tools https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod... This gives you a cmake-based IDE-like setup that works across Linux, macOS and Windows (and also allows to build and debug UI applications with the native OS APIs).