[Qt-interest] Many have not aware about this letter, Its for all who relies on Nokia

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

On 2011-02-11 Scott Scott Aron Bloom wrote:

> ...
> Is it a great environment for Linux.. Sure.. but on windows, I don't understand why
> someone would use it, EXCEPT to develop for a supported embedded device.

I use it for desktop development on Windows... and on Mac/Linux. For me that is a BIG advantage having the same IDE on all these platforms. Even the toolchain is the same (debugger, compiler).

I also did development, last time with Visual Studio 2005 Express, and that also worked okay with the Qt integration.

As for the plugins, certainly you have greater support in Visual Studio.

But code highlighting works well and fast, code completion works well and fast, I have auto-completion of #headers (at least the Qt ones)... and it is blazing fast!

Professionally I work with Java/Eclipse, and that has become a real pain performancewise! (To be fair the Java code basis is several orders larger than my own C++/Qt project, but even startup time of Eclipse is slooooow...)

So Qt Creator is a perfect match for people who need an "Editor++" (I *love* the F4 key to switch between cpp and header files ;) with the very bare minimum but very useful toolchain integration. Personally I would like to see some more refactoring support, such as selecting a piece of code and make a method out of it, and yes, Eclipse (and probably also VS2010) is great in that (also due to introspection capabilities built into the Java language - not sure if all that would be technically possible with plain C++).

But in the cross-platform spirit of Qt the Creator is a perfect match for me.

Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH
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