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Tbf, when coming from the C/C++ ecosystem, these types of problems are 'just another Tuesday' (especially for cross-platform projects and the official VSCode C/

Tbf, when coming from the C/C++ ecosystem, these types of problems are 'just another Tuesday' (especially for cross-platform projects and the official VSCode C/C++ extension).

voidUpdate 2y ago
Yeah, that's one of the reasons I dislike the C++ ecosystem so much and want to like Zig haha
jeroenhd 2y ago
This is part of the reason why I don't use VSCode for C(++). Jetbrains Clion seems to be the best IDE for those languages, with Visual Studio (the full fat one, costing a grand, as the free version lacks a bunch of features) as a close second, depending on what platform you're developing for. VSCode is great when it works, but in cases like these it quickly becomes obvious that it's a hodge-podge of tools glued together via extensions and command lines rather than a purpose-built IDE.
- markus_zhang 2y ago
  I have never used Clion. Can you please share why you believe it is the top of the crop? I'm writing a C++/SDL2 game engine in Visual Studio but I think the IDE is really slow and error prone even for a small project. Everything just runs so slow. Maybe I need a better machine though.
  - winrid 2y ago
    CLion has a free trial you can try. I find it works really well. I use it on a 6yo laptop quite often for C++.
    - markus_zhang 2y ago
      Thanks! Just to confirm, are you using Windows?
      - winrid 2y ago
        I use it on Windows and Linux for game development, mostly, with Meson or Cmake.
- Quothling 2y ago
  I'm not one to defend VSC as such, but I do think it's fair to mention that a lot of the Zig issues have been directly with the Zig LSP (zls) and not necessarily with any specific editor extension. Though I suppose some of it may be worse with VSC as it's often been rather important to keep both your Zig and zls versions up-to-date and synchronized. I'm not sure how that happens with the VSC extension, but if it auto-updates your zls version (which it probably does) then it may race ahead of your Zig version which might cause problems.
bobajeff 2y ago
Note for people wanting to use vscode for c or c++ development. The clangd extension* is provides much better code completion and jump to definition compared to the default c/c++ extension. * https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=llvm-vs-...

Tbf, when coming from the C/C++ ecosystem, these types of problems are 'just another Tuesday' (especially for cross-platform projects and the official VSCode C/C++ extension).

voidUpdate 2y ago

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I dislike the C++ ecosystem so much and want to like Zig haha

jeroenhd 2y ago

This is part of the reason why I don't use VSCode for C(++). Jetbrains Clion seems to be the best IDE for those languages, with Visual Studio (the full fat one, costing a grand, as the free version lacks a bunch of features) as a close second, depending on what platform you're developing for. VSCode is great when it works, but in cases like these it quickly becomes obvious that it's a hodge-podge of tools glued together via extensions and command lines rather than a purpose-built IDE.

markus_zhang 2y ago
I have never used Clion. Can you please share why you believe it is the top of the crop? I'm writing a C++/SDL2 game engine in Visual Studio but I think the IDE is really slow and error prone even for a small project. Everything just runs so slow. Maybe I need a better machine though.
- winrid 2y ago
  CLion has a free trial you can try. I find it works really well. I use it on a 6yo laptop quite often for C++.
  - markus_zhang 2y ago
    Thanks! Just to confirm, are you using Windows?
    - winrid 2y ago
      I use it on Windows and Linux for game development, mostly, with Meson or Cmake.
Quothling 2y ago
I'm not one to defend VSC as such, but I do think it's fair to mention that a lot of the Zig issues have been directly with the Zig LSP (zls) and not necessarily with any specific editor extension. Though I suppose some of it may be worse with VSC as it's often been rather important to keep both your Zig and zls versions up-to-date and synchronized. I'm not sure how that happens with the VSC extension, but if it auto-updates your zls version (which it probably does) then it may race ahead of your Zig version which might cause problems.

bobajeff 2y ago

Note for people wanting to use vscode for c or c++ development. The clangd extension* is provides much better code completion and jump to definition compared to the default c/c++ extension. * https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=llvm-vs-...