In recent months Canonical and Ubuntu have been concerned with offering and announcing the news that snap packages offer to users, especially when it comes to offering more security through your sandbox.
This is useful but for the comfortable developer, it is a bit bad since it does not leave its environment to have this type of packages. Aware of this, Canonical is expanding the application and creating snap packages to make it easier for users and developers to use snap packages.
That is why they created and incorporated the tool snapcraft that created snap packages easily and now that tool have incorporated it to Ubuntu SDK. So every time we use this set of tools, the user or developer will also have the possibility to create snap packages. In addition, other IDEs such as Ubuntu Make will have these tools natively, with the consequent benefits for users.
Snapcraft will be indirectly in Ubuntu Make through the Ubuntu SDK
This will not be the only thing but they have done everything possible so that Ubuntu's favorite tool, Qt-Creator, can easily create snap packages, for this, you just have to change the manifest file, which in snap packages ends in .yaml and they are usually txt files.
This small change is not marked by default and we have to do it ourselves, but the latest versions of QT-Creator, especially the Ubuntu SDK version, already incorporate this possible change and its interaction with snapcraft.
It seems like the new snap packages as well as their rivals are the future of programming since both have a sandbox that allows the system not to become unstable due to its lack or installation, so the updates and security are better. But it seems that there are still many developers who deny its use.
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