# What are the primary benefits of QtCreator?

Why would I choose QtCreator over another similar IDE? What are it's most important advantages?

##### Post Metadata
- Posted at: over 6 years ago
- Author title: Hired Consultant, Python, Azure Event Hubs, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Grafana, Azure, Kubernetes, ArgoCD at Equinor
- Net upvotes: 1


## Comments
### Comment 1

QtCreator has many benefits:

 + It is stable mature software being continuously developed and maintained following best practices since 1995.
 + It has native support for C++, Qt and QML frameworks
 + It is implemented in C++ and Qt5 which means the following:
   + It is really fast and responsive
   + It has very small memory and resource footprint
   + It is native cross platform for Linux, Windows and OSX
 + It has built in contextual help for Qt
 + It has built in example projects that will compile and run out of the box on all supported platforms
 + It support developments for mobile platforms such as Android and iOS
 + It supports development for many embedded hardware platforms such as specialized computers for military, medical, automotive and aviatory use
 + It has a rich plugin architecture with many commercial and free/open plugins available
 + It supports most modern IDE features, and has integrated one of the most advanced language servers for C++ (clang)
 + It supports many programming languages such as C++, C, Python, bash, HTML, CSS, javascript and more.
 + It has its own build system
 + It supports debugging with GDB both for local and remote


##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: over 6 years ago
- Author title: Hired Consultant, Python, Azure Event Hubs, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Grafana, Azure, Kubernetes, ArgoCD at Equinor




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