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[–] freely@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] youngbrett@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Both are full IDE’s though, to be fair.

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?

[–] freely@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

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.