Qt Creator

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The 22 most detailed of 27 comments. Each links to the original.

1. If you write Qt applications, Qt Creator is perfectly usable and as it's cross-platform you only need to be familiar with one IDE.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode”

2. The tooling, that is why. Having QtCreator, Qt Design Studio, compiling QML to native code, debugging experience.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML”

3. On other IDEs such as QtCreator with clang or gdb it shows the break red dot exactly where the issue is.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “C++26: The New Debugging Header”

4. I can whip together a rough GUI using QtCreator and then write the app logic in Python super quickly.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Python 3.15's interpreter for Windows should be 15% faster”

5. With Qtcreator one could build UI full UI in 2 days if the wireframes or a UI already exists.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?”

6. Qt Creator is actually very good, perhaps unexpectedly so for those who haven't used it

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++”

7. Qt Quick and Qt Creator isn't RAD per se but I feel like it gets you close.

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived”

8. Breakpoints just work. Debugging just works. Everything… works.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly”

9. QtCreator is first-class citizen for everything related to Qt

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly”

10. qt is a first class citizen, it works well.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly”

11. It has a form editor that actually works.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “PySimpleGUI 6”

12. The only good GUI form editor I've used.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine”

13. I agree Qt Creator is really good

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++”

14. good enough for most workflows

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025”

15. made a game in with the same tools I would have used on a PC (QtCreator, Allegro, GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, LMMS)

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux”

16. I also really like Qt Creator, for generic C++ development too.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot”

17. QtCreator, Clion (comparable with VS in many options)

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Rust Is Just a Tool”

18. I instead use Qt Creator for all my C++ development.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++”

19. that was anything but trivial not too long ago

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly”

20. Some manage it though, like QtCreator.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “The Learning Loop and LLMs”

21. Fellow QtCreator user here :)

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++”

22. Clangd is better than Qt Creator's native code intelligence.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++”