> VSCode was a pain trying to set up, so if this supports integration with cmake and automatically configured everything, then that's a win in my book.
Not sure the last time you tried, but VS Code does support cmake (perhaps with extensions?).
what about vscode was a pain to set up?
> As a C++ developer, I don't really see how it is going to compete against VS Code + LSP, Visual Studio, or even CLion.
If it's fast and supports these basic features that literally every other language already supports, then it's already beating Visual Studio. I haven't used CLion so I can't comment there, and VSCode was a pain trying to set up, so if this supports integration with cmake and automatically configured everything, then that's a win in my book.
Edit: I also hate these doom and gloom comments that basically say "nobody can beat big Corp Microsoft, Google, etc. Why bother trying...". What purpose does this comment serve? I'm sure the author is much more aware of how difficult this problem is then the people who aren't even attempting to solve it. All the power to him and I hope he succeeds because some other editors/IDEs for C++ would be great.