Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

Post by systems » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 3:56 AM UTC

dabber wrote: post #16

FridgeSeal wrote: post #10

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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.

> 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++ Is that true? I've heard that said before but I've also heard that's not true. I haven't been able to find anything indicating any parts of it are written in C/C++ either. The GitHub repo for VScode doesn't have any C in it; infact it doesn't have much but JS/TS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

Post by Matthias247 » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 3:59 AM UTC

dabber wrote: post #16

FridgeSeal wrote: post #10

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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.

> 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++ Is that true? I've heard that said before but I've also heard that's not true. I haven't been able to find anything indicating any parts of it are written in C/C++ either. The GitHub repo for VScode doesn't have any C in it; infact it doesn't have much but JS/TS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

Post by geezerjay » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 7:20 AM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #15

Tyr42 wrote: post #3

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It's also got a quite usable Vim mode.

Second this. Fakevim in Qt Creator is one of the better Vim emulation implementations. Not perfect, but it's at least 90% of the way there. Probably 100% if you don't use lots of crazy ex commands like I do

Post by zx2c4 » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 11:25 AM UTC

dilap wrote: post #20

remoroid wrote: post #6

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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.

I hate the slowness and bloat and entire ideology behind electron, BUT...electron apps do a pretty decent job of feeling native on the platform. Something I've never seen a Qt app do. Would love a counter-example, if you've got one. I'm on a mac.

Post by dilap » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

zx2c4 wrote: post #27

dilap wrote: post #20

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I hate the slowness and bloat and entire ideology behind electron, BUT...electron apps do a pretty decent job of feeling native on the platform. Something I've never seen a Qt app do. Would love a counter-example, if you've got one. I'm on a mac.

I can't think of a Qt app that looked odd on macOS. I've developed quite a few pieces of software in Qt for the mac, and they all perfectly use the OS's styles and colors.