From your experience, do most large or professional C projects rely on IDEs for development?

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  • Atom

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  • Visual Studio is just getting heavier and heavier with each release. Jumping off that treadmill and sourcing individual *lighter* components is a safer idea. Possibly I contribute the popularity of VSCode (GitHub Atom Fork) to this. (Though Notepad++ is still vastly lighter than VSCode).

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  • Vim is just a text editor in the same way Google is just a webpage. It's scriptable and there are plugins to do just about everything, check out vim awesome https://vimawesome.com/

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  • fzf plugin for opening files, provides fast and easy fuzzy searching over project tree;

  • dotfiles

    my dotfiles (by MarcoLucidi01)

  • buffers and splits for managing multiple opened files, this stackoverflow answer helped me understanding the difference between buffers and tabs in vim (I never use tabs). I have this gem in my vimrc:

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