My Modern C++ Setup on macOS and Apple Silicon

Published: 2026-05-19 I’m starting to learn modern C++, so I wanted a repeatable development setup on Apple Silicon: use a modern LLVM/Clang toolchain build projects with CMake and Ninja get proper language-server support in VS Code and Helix use sanitizers and static analysis from the beginning keep the setup practical This cheatsheet assumes that Homebrew is already installed.