Qt Creator 18 Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18-released

98•jrepinc•3h ago

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ktpsns•3h ago

Amazing to see this still maintained. Qt creator was my go-to IDE about 20 years ago. At this time, Visual Code, Eclipse, NetBeans and friends had been incredibly resource demanding where Qt creator felt pretty lightweight yet powerful.

spacechild1•2h ago

I'm still using QtCreator as my go-to cross-platform C++ IDE! It might give CLion a shot since there's now a free version, but so far I haven't really felt a need to do so.

brooke2k•2h ago

I switched to using JetBrains for most things recently, and I'll say this about CLion: it is incredible and my instant go-to for CMake-based projects. For any other build system it is a massive headache to get working in my experience.

wavemode•2h ago

Qt Creator has always been one of the nicer free C++ IDEs, and qmake one of the nicer build systems. Even if you're not doing Qt development at all.

jdboyd•2h ago

Qt Creator is reasonably nice. I believe that qmake is deprecated now though in favour of CMake.

LorenDB•2h ago

Qt Creator is the only IDE I'll use for C++, and I only wish that it had the incredibly in-depth language support for other languages (I'm a D fan and would love an actually good IDE for it).

delduca•2h ago

For non Qt projects, but CMake (Conan) based, it is good?

72deluxe•2h ago

Yes. I use it with wxWidgets and other C++ projects, never touching Qt at all. The performance analysis tools on Linux have been useful to me, and the text editor is lovely to use instead of fuzzy-font-land like Visual Studio Code.

ckocagil•2h ago

That's how I always used it. CMake and non-Qt. Very solid IDE.

neobrain•18m ago

Honestly the name is doing Qt Creator a bit of a disservice, given how fantastic an IDE for any C++ codebase it is, Qt or not.

Yes - it's good for this use case! It even has built-in support for fetching dependencies declared in project conanfiles.

albertzeyer•2h ago

QtCreator was a bit like the lightweight version of KDevelop for me. I didn't really needed any of the Qt features, just the C++ editor. And the C++ support was really good.

nurettin•2h ago

For me it had the best debugger integration and visualizers back in mid 2000s. In fact that's how I learned about .gdbinit and macros.

HarHarVeryFunny•45m ago

Anyone else here old enough to have used the similar UIM/X for Motif ?!

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