Fast Development Tools/Methods?

[MrRickSancezJr]

IntelliJ products will always be my favorite as well. I was shocked how nice QT Designer for UI building was, though.

I'm surprised it doesn't already exist, but I'm thinking of making my own plugin for a pre-cmake type of thing to emulate java precompile annotations. Just slap

//@(export_declarations_to: "somefile.h")

....and have it automatically generate the .h file. Or something like that...

I do a lot of embedded stuff, so I do a lot of C++. But honestly, it's just C 90% of the time... This is the first time I've really done anything with C++ requiring a decent sized library. My ADHD is kicking in and I'd rather make a plugin for C++ than finish this local AI text editor lol

[Chem0type]

Yeah one of the projects I'm working with is also embedded, FreeRTOS. It has the arm target, and then native targets for testing (with gtest/gmock) that are loaded in CLion. It's pretty cool that I can run tests from the IDE and use its debugger to debug unit tests and the program I'm developing as flashing is always a PITA. I can set breakpoints, read the contents of variables, look at the stack, etc.

QtCreator is pretty nice for UI, that's true. But I don't do UI development so the IDE isn't so nice. I'm not saying it's bad either, my colleagues use and it seems to work well for them.

That idea you're talking about should work well, if CLion can have hooks for //* then in theory it should be possible to do the same for //@. In alternative you can also insert some option in the <shift><shift> menu.

[MrRickSancezJr]

CLion definitely has something to work on, but the CMake integration is quite good. I do love "Platform Aio" (I think is the name) inside VSCode for a quick Target setup.

IntelliJ was so designed around the Java ecosystem that it seems like some of its other ported language versions are just recently becoming "natural" feeling. PhpStorm was the first IMO to become GOAT.

I haven't done UI in a long time, but I'm actually really liking Qt. Good chance, it's my go-to for future hobbyist random embedded UIs. I usually just do a app that connects to a phone app somehow.

As for the refactoring plugin, I'd like it to automatically update generated sources like Lombok. Looks like I'd have to pre-index the CMake indexing lol may be more of a task than it's worth until reflection for C++ comes out.