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Originally Posted by karbomusic

If just compling C++ will vscode work? it's tiny in comparison and cross-platform...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp

That won't work since it's just a text editor and doesn't include a compiler. You can compile C++ in VS Code, if you have Visual Studio or other C++ compiler (eg. MinGW) installed. VSCode is just launching other compilers, and you'll have to configure the launching yourself, too.