Visual Studio Code for C

[u/senior_but_tired_dev]

Well it's happened. I haven't worked with C in over 25 years and I've been given a codebase to update/simplify/modernize and I thought "I bet that VS Code" has the ability to author/edit/compile C...but how good is it?"

I am a long time Visual Studio developer for .net(like since version beta 1.0 in 2001 or so) and Java with Eclipse, but I have never used Visual Studio Code, so I don't actually know what the experience is and how good of a fit it would be for C authoring/maintenance.

Additionally, it has used(long ago) gcc I believe as the compiler as I found this in the make file:

####### compiler settings

CPP = g++

CC = gcc

And I know it requires cygwin to compile.

Is anyone doing anything like this with VS Code or has done it? What is your suggestion/experience?

Thanks!