The next step is to click on “Create a new Xcode project”.Īgain, if you have an existing project you will click on “Open a project or file” or “Clone an existing project” if the project is on source control. Your screen would not contain and previous projects So after downloading Xcode ( Doesn’t matter if you download it through the mac app store or the official developer website ) and opening it you will be greeted by this screen: Xcode is an IDE developed by Apple themselves to develop apps for macOS and iOS or all other Operating Systems that Apple develops.

The macOS version of Visual Studio is not available for C or C++ as we can develop C# but not C/C++

Installing the Xcode Command Line Tools and using any preferred IDE or Code Editor for writing C or C++ code.

When it comes to a Mac There are about two options: Though most people won’t agree with me, I have spent a quiet lot of time finding one, the “Perfect” one like Visual Studio on a Windows Machine, But there are not many Finding a C++ IDE for a macOS system is as hard as finding a needle in a haystack.

C++ for mac editor