UPDATE: xcodebuild was only slow because I was compiling the Release configuration. For now I will keep using Xcode for compiling For example, if I make a minor code change then the project will recompile in Xcode in a second or two, but xcodebuild seems to do a full recompile, which takes 20-30 seconds. Unfortunately xcodebuild’s build times are much slower than Xcode’s, and I don’t know why. This lets you compile without leaving VS Code It uses xcodebuild on the command line, which is equivalent to compiling from the Xcode application. I have also configured a build task as described here. The C/C++ plugin required some minor configuration to let it find Juce’s modules, so that Intellisense works, as described here.

Seems good to me, but I’m not very experienced with C++ so I’m afraid I can’t give a detailed comparison with Xcode. I have been using the C/C++ plugin for vscode mentioned above.

Until now I have been using Xcode, but I am so used to VS Code that it is a pain switching back and forth. I have been using VS Code for about 6 months for my day job (front end web dev), and am trying it out for Juce/C++ projects.

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