alt Hacker News> Qt Creator is actually very good, perhaps unexpectedly so for those who haven’t used it
This. I can't abide VSCode. I instead use Qt Creator for all my C++ development.
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Me too.
Until having language specific features really lost to AI auto complete, and now it's some vscode flavor.
No love for KDevelop? :)
Fellow QtCreator user here :)
I agree Qt Creator is really good, and VSCode with the Microsoft C++ extension is probably not quite as good.
However with the Clangd extension it is much much better. Even better than Qt Creator. 100% accurate C++ code intelligence, really really fast error squigglies. Honestly I was kind of surprised it's even possible to get it that good.
It's not quite on the level of Dart (which is basically instant and perfect), but I'd say it's on the same level as Rust at least in terms of responsiveness and reliability.
Jetbrains CLion is great for non-Qt C++, albeit paid. It helped me deliver a bank-exchange-grade connector in a tight schedule with very little knowledge of C (at that time). Mostly with static checking, compiling, cmake etc.