Recently I implemented an 'XY to Line' function in the ShapeTools plugin.
This has been requested several times and I needed it so I implemented it.
See
http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/shapetools/
XY to Line is similar to the ArcGIS tool with the same name.
http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-
Hi!
> Another question I have is whether there are other ArcGIS functions that
> are missing in QGIS that would be good to implement.
amazingly in processing we don't have an easy/obvious (at least for me) way to
* snap points to lines
* cut lines with points
* a tool to perform distance analys