Qt Creator

What do you like best?

For me, the most killer feature of Qt Creator is that it its humble resource needs and lightning quick response. It never leaves me waiting for anything. It has consistently felt responsive and stable as long as I have been using it (5 years) .

Another important feature that Qt Creator has is that it's native and cross platform. This means that it does not need any bloaty VM to be installed such as .NET framework, Java VM or similar. When you install Qt Creator it is a statically linked C++ application built natively for your platform.

Qt Creator is tightly linked to the Qt framework and has many features built in to support Qt such as graphical UI designers, UI resource manager, 3D asset management, Internationalization manager, debugger integration with support for Qt native types. It also has a test harness built in and support forthe Qt spesific build systems (qmake and qbs).

What do you dislike?

I would love to see support for more languages out of the box. I know there are plugins and available customizations for this.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Give it a shot, and log in to #qt on freenode if you have any questions. Usually the developers of Qt and Qt Creator lurk there and area happy to answer your questions. Also if you hit on a bug, remember that Qt and Qt Creator are open source projects and will happily receive bug reports.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I build software all day(work) and all night(fun). I find myself using Qt Creator even for tasks that it was not designed for. I edit and inspect sources. I manage software projects. I debug my code and manage the git repo from Qt Creator.