Why does everyone use Visual Studio for C/C++ development?

[w1ataru]

I see some people use clang from time to time but thats not really the point of the question. Unlike with other languages, I haven't met or seen a person yet who just uses a text editor, not fancy ide stuff. Heck, I've watched a conference recently where a guy who is litteraly on the C language board, and he says that the only reason why he's on windows is cuz of VS.

I don't get it. Why and how is VS so above doing things by hand? is there something that is extremely tedious to do by hand that VS does for you? sorry still a newbie so thats why im asking

[UliB]

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@w1ataru wrote:

I see some people use clang from time to time but thats not really the point of the question. Unlike with other languages, I haven't met or seen a person yet who just uses a text editor, not fancy ide stuff. Heck, I've watched a conference recently where a guy who is litteraly on the C language board, and he says that the only reason why he's on windows is cuz of VS.

I don't get it. Why and how is VS so above doing things by hand? is there something that is extremely tedious to do by hand that VS does for you? sorry still a newbie so thats why im asking

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[Hugo_Hauet]

Hello w1ataru,

To answer your question there are three main arguments that are going in the direction of Visual Studio being best:

• He is one of the Principal IDE.
• For most people he has the best debugging tool.
• Easier to configure.

Have a good day,
Hugo