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For the better, with Qt there is QtCreator.

Not sure what you are trying to say here. Qt, the library, and QtCreator, the IDE, are completely separate products. You can use QtCreator without Qt and vice versa.

Now, I'm pretty sure you know that, hence my confusion...

Qt Creator makes working with Qt a heck of a lot easier in a way that working with Visual Studio or vim does not. It comes with an integrated Qt form designer, Quick Designer for QML, supports Qt's moc syntax out of the box, integrated support for Qt Test Integration, native support for Qt Assistant and documentation and integration with Qt's internationalization tools.

The idea that "QtCreator" is some totally independent IDE that just coincidentally happens to have the letters Qt at the beginning in the same way that Java and JavaScript are independent of one another, but otherwise has no relationship to Qt the library is just patently absurd HN pedantry.

> Qt Creator makes working with Qt a heck of a lot easier in a way that working with Visual Studio or vim does not.

That's only true if you intentionally ignore all the aspects where Qt Creator falls way short of what "visual studio or vim" are leaps and bounds ahead.

> that just coincidentally happens to have the letters Qt at the beginning

That's not what I was trying to say. I just thought it's worth pointing out that QtCreator is really a general-purpose C++ IDE. (It's my favourite C++ IDE, btw.)

It can be a general-purpose C++ IDE and also very tightly coupled to Qt at the same time.

Visual Studio is also a general-purpose C++ IDE and yet I don't think anyone would say it's independent of Windows.

Sure. Actually, I think I misunderstood OP. I think what he was trying to say is that by switching to Qt you also get a nice visual editor in the form of QtCreator, to which I agree!

QtCreator helps with the learning curve as it‘s a very accessible IDE. One of the first IDEs I used in my career.

Sure, QtCreator is nice and it's actually my IDE of choice. I just wanted to point out that it is independent of Qt, the library.

How it compares to CLion?

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