Hey, i wrote this post ages ago :-). Some minor updates since then: Since then i also tried Qt Creator and while it feels more clunky than even the original B

Hey, i wrote this post ages ago :-). Some minor updates since then: Since then i also tried Qt Creator and while it feels more clunky than even the original Borland C++ Builder, especially with the form designer (which i think is basically the standardalone Qt Designer embedded in it) and how it doesn't feel like a coherent product but a mashup of different bits and pieces, it is probably the closest you can find in open source for a RAD(-ish) C++ IDE (big caveat that i have only used it sparingly, never made anything more than a few toy apps with it). I am a bit worried that you're still relying on the Qt company which has shown hostility towards the open source community several times but i think that between Embarcadero and Qt company, relying on the latter is better and it is popular enough for external developers to pick it up in case it gets abandoned (the benefit of it being FLOSS). But at the end i still think Lazarus is better when it comes to a RAD IDE and framework (i am taking all three of these combined, not separated) for desktop applications, assuming you do not mind using Free Pascal as the language. Of course that is with my big bias since i learned programming on Turbo Pascal, used Delphi in the 90s, use Lazarus since the 2000s and in recent years even contribute to its development. Someone starting nowadays will most likely have a harder time getting used to it and the documentation could certainly be better.