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18 March 2026
Switching IDE's is not an easy thing. You are used to certain ways of doing things and you have strong muscle memories that need to be overcome.
Join Jesper Pedersen as he takes his first serious look at JetBrains' CLion after more than a decade with Qt Creator, showing what works well for Qt/CMake projects – and what still feels rough when you come from Qt Creator.
In this intro, you’ll see how to try CLion in a separate configuration, switch to a Qt Creator-style keymap, open and configure an existing Qt project, create new Qt Widgets projects and UI classes, and get a first taste of CLion’s debugging and Git integration that might just convince you to give it a real try.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Initial setup
03:14 Starting with an existing project
06:03 Editing and navigating
08:27 QMake?
09:03 Starting a new project
14:32 The compile error
16:13 ESC key doesn't work
17:49 Debugging
19:40 Git
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