←back to thread

Qt Creator 18 Released

(www.qt.io)
146 points jrepinc | 6 comments | 30 Oct 25 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source | bottom
1. delduca ◴[30 Oct 25 17:20 UTC] No.45762500[source]▶
For non Qt projects, but CMake (Conan) based, it is good?
replies(5): >>45762620 #>>45762873 #>>45764487 #>>45765030 #>>45768686 #
2. 72deluxe ◴[30 Oct 25 17:28 UTC] No.45762620[source]▶
Yes. I use it with wxWidgets and other C++ projects, never touching Qt at all. The performance analysis tools on Linux have been useful to me, and the text editor is lovely to use instead of fuzzy-font-land like Visual Studio Code.
3. ckocagil ◴[30 Oct 25 17:48 UTC] No.45762873[source]▶
That's how I always used it. CMake and non-Qt. Very solid IDE.
4. neobrain ◴[30 Oct 25 19:49 UTC] No.45764487[source]▶
Honestly the name is doing Qt Creator a bit of a disservice, given how fantastic an IDE for any C++ codebase it is, Qt or not.

Yes - it's good for this use case! It even has built-in support for fetching dependencies declared in project conanfiles.

5. mkipper ◴[30 Oct 25 20:38 UTC] No.45765030[source]▶
I haven't used it in a few years, but I always found it to be very flexible and useful for non-Qt projects.

I last used it for an embedded project, which are sometimes a pain to set up in an IDE (cross-compiler, sysroot, debug server, etc.), and I was shocked by how easy it was to get going and how smooth it felt compared to most IDEs.

6. spacechild1 ◴[31 Oct 25 05:23 UTC] No.45768686[source]▶
Yes! I use it for all my C and C++ projects. Only very few of them use Qt. CMake integration is seemless.