CLion vs VSCode in 2023 for C++

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    Open-Source Vulkan C++ API

    VS 2022 has seen a massive increase in performance especially after its move to 64-bit. It lints even the largest headers (ahem, Vulkan-Hpp) in a matter of seconds whereas CLion just chokes and crashes.

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    Another FAST editor -- they call it a mini IDE -- for C++ and a bunch of other languages is Geany https://www.geany.org/

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