There is a lot to Qt Creator, but for now, I just want to give you an overview. We will devote a section later in this book to looking at some of Qt Creator's advanced capabilities.
Qt Creator is the cross-platform IDE for developing Qt applications. It supports code editing and development in C++, JavaScript, QML, XML, HTML, and other languages. It can create and edit QMake project (.pro) files for both simple and complex projects. You can use it to visually design user interfaces. It works directly with version control systems such as Mecurial, Git, and SVN. It executes compilation, and it even does source-level debugging. It also does static C++ code analysis with Clang!
It is a very complete, fast, IDE written in Qt for developing Qt GUI and console applications along with Qt plugins and libraries.
With such a powerful IDE, you would expect that...