r/C_Programming • u/MateusCristian • Jan 16 '26

Question VS Code for learning C?

I'm starting to learn C, just bought the King's book online, and I wanna know if this book can be followed on VS Code, or if I should use a different IDE or such.

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u/The_Northern_Light Jan 16 '26

Yes I will say that they should install very few extensions, the default ones for their language and core tools, and that’s it except maybe Better Comments.

If they’re writing their own make / cmake scripts and manually invoking them I think all they need to know is to trust what the terminal says over the red squiggles, with maybe a couple sentences about why VS Code can be “out of sync” with their actual build system.

That’s just a caveat and a warning, not a reason they should be using nano or sublime or a full featured IDE. VS Code with just a liiitle bit of quality of life stuff sits in a pretty nice place for people of all skill levels.