I went from 0 C++ work/projects to a quality production one right away w/ Qt Creator, their docs, and general bring-you-up-to-speed-on-modern-c++ docs on the web. I only had minimal experience from a decade ago in C++. Very approachable if you are familiar w/ other languages and are the reading type.

Completely agree, I had a similar experience. My team found ourselves liking the Qt approach so much that we started using it for headless projects too, including our server (which used protobufs). Qt is so useful.

+1 on the Qt docs. In my personal opinion, and as someone who's a read-the-docs-to-learn type, they are the best documentation I've come across yet.

CMake has fantastic support for Qt. Decided to add a Qt GUI to a personal project with an existing CMake build setup and the integration was very painless, just ~4 lines added. Finding the solution was a little tougher, however, since nearly all documentation assumes a QtCreator + qmake configuration.