Indeed; while VSCode is held up as the "best ever IDE for everything, period", what those people gloss over is that they are web devs, not C++ hackers who need to be able to easily build projects (and have good, reliable syntax highlighting and autocompletion). In the rare occasion that I use VSCode for C++ development, I just use cmake from the built-in terminal because I really don't think VSCode is designed to build C++ projects.