Back in the QtCreator 4.10 days there was "automatic" clang-tidy/clazy
integration. The downside was that opening a source file would cause a lag
(sometimes long depending on the age of the computer) to get the
method/function list and code navigation to show up. The upside is that the
annotations were marked in the editor along the right side and also in the
scroll well area. They were easy to see with the human eye and hard to miss.
BUT QtCreator 4.10 had a big bad issue on macOS Catalina with the latest Xcode,
debugging caused the CPU to burn 100% even when sitting at a break point.
Then we jumped to QtCreator 4.12 RC/Beta and now the debugging issue is solved
BUT now clang-tidy doesn't run automatically anymore. When I searched out how
to get it to run I have to run it manually (ok, maybe a fair trade off) but the
annotations are effectively "hidden" now down the left side of the editor
marked by a little triangle icon. There doesn't seem to be a way to go back to
old style of putting them on the right side of the editor and in the scroll
well. I am now missing clang-tidy warnings because there isn't a list anywhere
to go by. The clang-tidy process seems to fail because of some ITK header that
says it does not recognize the compiler. This didn't used to happen.
So now I have a decision to make. Stick with 4.10.x but have a noisy laptop
(the fans spin at 100%) but have really nice automatic clang-tidy warnings that
are easy to "see" and therefor parse OR go with 4.12 where the debugging is now
quiet but the clang-tidy annotations are effectively hidden to the developer,
or at least non-obvious.
My assumption is that if the developer finds it important enough to turn on the
clang-tidy warnings they I would assume that they want to easily "see" and grok
those warnings.
Just my 2 cents.
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