[Interest] Qt Creator is so buggy and so slow...

[Max Paperno]

> On 3/18/2021 8:38 PM, Alexander Dyagilev wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Often it just stops to suggest code, syntax highlighted stops working 
>> (at least for a part of the code) for no apparent reason.
>>
>> It takes apporx. 10 seconds to parse c++ file for c++ tools to start 
>> working. If you open/close/open same c++ it can stop parsing it until 
>> app restart.
>>
>> App restart often helps to fix these bugs, but they do return in a 
>> small amount of time...
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>

I often disable the "new" clang-based parser when I'm working on a 
project of any significant size/complexity.  The extra hinting and some 
other features it provides are nice, but not really worth the expense. 
8 x 3.5GHz cores I guess aren't enough to parse my code in real time.  I 
can edit 4K video in real time on this computer, but not really use the 
clang-parsing in QtC on a "big" project where it would be most useful. 
All my "valuable feedback" on the issue was summarily ignored, and 
unfortunately the old code model is no longer maintained (despite some 
pleas to keep it current), and has some minor issues.  But it's fast and 
still works good enough (last I checked). The clang parser/analyzer can 
then be run manually as needed to catch any possible outlier issues.

I absolutely can't stand having to restart my editors (tools) all the 
time.  And this stuff typically happens when I'm right in mid-flow of 
work.  It's like being 25' up on a ladder with a screw gun that only 
sometimes works...  yea that's getting tossed in the rubbish bin.

Cheers,
-Max