Glad to see one of the best C++ IDE's getting even better. The best part of it: even after all this years of active development and improvements it still feels very lightweight, it's more like sublime in terms of speed, when other comparable (by features) IDE's are feeling very heavy and bulky (like Visual Studio for example).<p>The only thing I would love to dream of is to Qt Creator have a better stand-alone support, now it's completely and fully integrated with Qt ecosystem, and that's really nice if you use Qt, but when I'm trying to convince my co-workers to give it a try, the getting on-board curve is a bit too much. Though this being said: it become much better in last years.
I have said this in reddit, I am saying this again here because I feel if I don't I haven't paid my debt to QtCreator, especially their recent improvement.<p>Best C++ ide, by far. Especially with their recent enhancement to their CMake support. right now I am writing gtkmm app in QtCreator (I am using gtkmm instead of Qt because target system does not have Qt installed). With Clang Code Model I would say they are almost on par with Java IDE's in term of productivity.
I really wish the Qt Company would stop bundling QtCreator as a required component of the Qt SDK.<p>I use QtCreator as my main IDE & think it's great, so of course I install new versions as soon as they become available. I compile & test against several different versions of Qt though and every single one of them lumbers me with an additional out-of-date copy of my IDE. This bugs me - more than it probably should.
The horrible thing about QtCreator is plugins support.
Most of them unstable and crashing IDE. Dependency on Qt SDK private sources killing all my attempts to maintain my own plugins.
I wonder if Mac support has improved. I like Qt Creator but a couple of years ago lots of weird bugs in the Mac GUI, like disappearing mouse cursors that wouldn't come back, among other oddities. I had read reports of other users with similar problems on Mac. I suspect most of the Qt dev team doesn't regularly use Mac so they don't spot these issues. I tried Qt Creator again about 9 months ago but it still felt bit problematic in a few areas.
How this compare with Embarcadero C++ Builder?
<a href="https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder" rel="nofollow">https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder</a><p>Embarcadero also supports Windows, Android and iOS and they plan to add Linux server support this year.