I have no stake in this as I don’t use any of these applications, but what feature do they have that makes them IDEs while VSCode is not considered an IDE?
I use neither as well, although I did use QtCreator for a few weeks once, and its RAD (and vim mode) was nice for Qt dev.
The main features are the same across all IDE’s - debugger, code completion, refactoring, linting, Git integration, and build systems support. I’m sure there’s more, but like I said I don’t use them so I can’t name more.
Obviously VSCode can use plugins to do all this, same as many other editors. The line between IDE & text editor get blurry with plugins.
At some point, where’s the line? What’s the feature that QT Creator has that VSCode doesn’t have? VSCode can compile, it can perform code analysis, it can debug, it can do code cleanup, you can search code by symbols.
I don’t use VSCode and I have no stake in this, but I’m not sure why it’s not considered a full blown IDE.
Yeah, but VScode seems to be very efficiently optimised. On the other hand I have seen many electron apps be way too memory hungry and super slow for what they do (Signal desktop, bitwarden desktop…
Though it seems to be better today than 2-3 years ago.
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Both are full IDE’s though, to be fair. QtCreator even has a RAD for Qt which is really convenient.
Why do you say Qt for Linux isn’t good? All the Qt programs (and KDE) I’ve used on Linux worked great.
I have no stake in this as I don’t use any of these applications, but what feature do they have that makes them IDEs while VSCode is not considered an IDE?
I use neither as well, although I did use QtCreator for a few weeks once, and its RAD (and vim mode) was nice for Qt dev.
The main features are the same across all IDE’s - debugger, code completion, refactoring, linting, Git integration, and build systems support. I’m sure there’s more, but like I said I don’t use them so I can’t name more.
Obviously VSCode can use plugins to do all this, same as many other editors. The line between IDE & text editor get blurry with plugins.
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QT Creator is a full blown IDE. It would be more fair to compare it to Visual Studio, not Code.
At some point, where’s the line? What’s the feature that QT Creator has that VSCode doesn’t have? VSCode can compile, it can perform code analysis, it can debug, it can do code cleanup, you can search code by symbols.
I don’t use VSCode and I have no stake in this, but I’m not sure why it’s not considered a full blown IDE.
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Yeah, but VScode seems to be very efficiently optimised. On the other hand I have seen many electron apps be way too memory hungry and super slow for what they do (Signal desktop, bitwarden desktop…
Though it seems to be better today than 2-3 years ago.