Vagrant makes standing up a development virtual machine easy and repeatable. I prefer clang to gcc primarily for the (IMO) superior error messages. But, the "YouCompleteMe" plugin for Vim is a very nice additional benefit to using clang.
I would also recommend reading up on some of the changes to the language made in C++11 - the support for lambdas, for example, is wonderful.
Finally, with the latest version of Vagrant there is support for Docker containers, https://www.docker.io/
This holds a lot of promise. I'd recommend looking at that, too, as a way to build the development environment and required libraries once, in addition to using Chef for provisioning... think of docker as a shortcut to provisioning that can also be used in deployment...
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