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Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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These guys continue to do a great job. If you're looking for a nice cross-platform C++ IDE that supports multiple build systems this is it. I'm looking forward to upcoming meson integration (GSoC project IIRC).

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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These guys continue to do a great job. If you're looking for a nice cross-platform C++ IDE that supports multiple build systems this is it. I'm looking forward to upcoming meson integration (GSoC project IIRC).

It's also got a quite usable Vim mode.

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Qt Creator is a fantastic editor and IDE. If you're doing cross-platform GUI development, Qt is a good choice (especially compared to something grotesque and unseemly like Electron), and for Qt development, Qt Creator is as good as it gets. But it turns out that it works really well for generic C and C++ development too, even with obscure C like the Linux kernel, thanks to the Clang code model. I use Qt Creator sometimes when working on WireGuard (in addition to the usual typical vim/cli flow).

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Qt Creator is a fantastic editor and IDE. If you're doing cross-platform GUI development, Qt is a good choice (especially compared to something grotesque and unseemly like Electron), and for Qt development, Qt Creator is as good as it gets. But it turns out that it works really well for generic C and C++ development too, even with obscure C like the Linux kernel, thanks to the Clang code model. I use Qt Creator somet…

Yep, if you can even compare Electron to Qt. Electron is just a buggy ill-conceived hack to wrap a browser with nodejs to make webpages. All it provides is a blank window with no customisation and a huge size and memory overhead.

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Anyone have a good way to run Qt Creator locally on their desktop, but edit, build, and debug code running on a remote, headless server?

I love Qt Creator, but this use-case has led me to settle for Vim+gdb over ssh.

[edit] Clarification: X-over-SSH isn't a good solution because of the lag.

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Anyone have a good way to run Qt Creator locally on their desktop, but edit, build, and debug code running on a remote, headless server? I love Qt Creator, but this use-case has led me to settle for Vim+gdb over ssh. [edit] Clarification: X-over-SSH isn't a good solution because of the lag.

have you tried sshfs?

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Qt Creator is a fantastic editor and IDE. If you're doing cross-platform GUI development, Qt is a good choice (especially compared to something grotesque and unseemly like Electron), and for Qt development, Qt Creator is as good as it gets. But it turns out that it works really well for generic C and C++ development too, even with obscure C like the Linux kernel, thanks to the Clang code model. I use Qt Creator somet…

Yep, if you can even compare Electron to Qt. Electron is just a buggy ill-conceived hack to wrap a browser with nodejs to make webpages. All it provides is a blank window with no customisation and a huge size and memory overhead.

VSCode, Figma.

Re: Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

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Yep, if you can even compare Electron to Qt. Electron is just a buggy ill-conceived hack to wrap a browser with nodejs to make webpages. All it provides is a blank window with no customisation and a huge size and memory overhead.

VSCode, Figma.

I've never heard of Figma, but the reason VSCode is as good as it is now is because it's has had increasing parts of it being re-written in C or C++ along with other extensive performance modifications to the electron runtime by the vscode team.
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