VSCode

Settings

Where VSCode stores settings JSON files (on Windows):

User

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json

Remote

\\wsl.localhost\<wsl-distro>\home\<username>\.vscode-server\data\Machine\settings.json

Workspace

...repo\.vscode\settings.json

Code Analysis Extensions

C++

clangd:

• Pros

  • Faster, instant click to definition

• Cons

  • More complicated to set up

  • Have to manually build repo and refresh compile commands regularly, and then restart cland language server to keep go-to-definition up-to-date

  • It seems to not recognize a lot of symbols (classes, types, etc.) - there are a lot of red squiggles

  • When ctrl + clicking on a class type, it often doesn't go to the definition of that class, but rather to a variable of that type being declared, which is useless.

Microsoft C++ Extension:

• Pros

  • Easy to install and set up

  • Updates compile commands automatically in the background

  • Better at following ctrl + click to definitions of classes

  • Recognizes almost all symbols, very few are not recognized

• Cons

  • Slower

    • Often takes a few seconds to think when ctrl + clicking to go-to-definition, especially when you first open a file or ctrl + click a symbol for the first time in that session

    • Sometimes need to wait while automated refreshing compile commands runs in the background, symbols are not recognized in the meantime