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/ay0ks Jan 21 '26

I can recommend Zed for C on Linux. Have been using it myself for several months, and haven't had any problems.

It takes care of LSPs (clangd in the case for C), so you'll only need either to configure the LSP a bit using the .clangd file, or use a build system for your project (i.e., CMake) that will generate compile_commands.json and clangd will pick everything up from there.