Is anyone successful with these toolkits/IDEs?
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So I'm really not here to take a dump on QT, at all. I've been having some (SOME) fun creating little tools, scripts, and graphical odds and ends with their Creator, Designer, and SDK tools. But by the end of absolutely every session, something MAJOR ends up broken. I don't even know where to begin - segment faults, disappearing toolkits and plugins, crashes with no errors in the journal, crashes with errors in the journal that no one knows how to solve (check this forum, for instance hah!). I either couldn't build my apps, couldn't open my apps, or had lost my app entirely to some form of corruption.
So with that said, I'm just curious - are people successful with these software tools? I do use Arch, so maybe there is some duct tape I forgot to apply somewhere, but I don't think so, especially after spending the last few weeks on forums. I wish I could post an error message or something, but the issues are genuinely so vast with every single QT tool, that I'm not willing to move forward anymore. It amazes me that KDE has hung in there so long based on this software (not that KDE has ever been known for non-buggy software hah!).
Thanks if anyone can shine some light on this for me, I'm real curious!
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The Qt Framework itself is fine, but I agree that for instance Qt Designer isn't the best piece of software :))
and it's not even about instability or so, more about wanky UX and limitations vs. creating GUIs by writing the actual code yourself.
The IDE, QtCreator is actually a quite mature IDE for C++ development and project without Qt, even though it fits Qt GUI apps the best. Haven't experienced anything especially bad with it and I'm using it for over 6 years now, on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu).I assume, most people who develop professionally on/for Windows are using Visual Studio or VSCode for their projects anyway.
At least the Ubuntu people don't report anything too bad about QtCreator and I personally didn't faced any major bugs in the software itself
I do use Arch, so maybe there is some duct tape I forgot to apply somewhere, but I don't think so, especially after spending the last few weeks on forums. I wish I could post an error message or something, but the issues are genuinely so vast with every single QT tool, that I'm not willing to move forward anymore.
So what exactly are you facing? Random crashes, bugs?! What do other Arch Linux guys report?
Nobody forces you to use these tools ;-)
You can use Qt without using any of them. -
Thanks for taking the time tonight. Yeah, the QT framework is pretty fun to work with all in all! Yes, random crashes, and the only error messages I got just led me in circles around the forums. The issues with the IDEs (they all seem largely like the same basic software to me, BTW) are pretty widespread, and not much luck on true fixes. The other part that was just great was that they'd eat my files when reading them while crashing, so I'd lose all my code!
Agreed that I was really only in it for the WYSIWYG GUI tooling. I lean (very heavily) toward backend development, and design has never been my forte. So I was bummed to lose that, but must admit that the build tools work swimmingly in VSCode, and I'm having fun nonetheless.
The ever-growing nerd beards on the Arch forums didn't have much to offer. There were a few folks saying they couldn't reproduce the bugs (segmentation faults are really hard to diagnose). But many more saying they had also decided to throw it out the window.
I'm mainly in it for the KDE plug-and-playness. I doubt I'll end up being a pro QML dev, but it's been a fun little jaunt (kinda). But yes, great point, I'm doing just fine in good ol' VS Code with the wonky little QML preview CLI tool on an auto-refresh!
