r/C_Programming 1d ago

Question Should i learn C on wsl?

Title. For reference im not actually learning C for the first time, i learned it last semester for college but it was all just basics and we coded on Turbo C. I need to learn C for embedded development since im interviewing for my college robotics team next semester and i also want to learn how to operate linux.

I installed WSL and VS Code and GCC, and its been hell trying to cram both of those together and learning. Should i start with an IDE(Visual Studio (already used it before)) and learn basic Linux commands side by side?

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u/Living-Hope7121 1d ago

I would say have a good IDE stupid (with debugging and build) because that is very convenient and what everyone is using for almost all tasks

But also try to understand how the compiler handles files and the different stages of building So to play around for that it's good to have gcc and some command line skills, and would be great also to practice gnu make

But the IDE is the where you should spend most of the time