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Xcode is 13 years old. Visual Studio is 19 years old. Why would people use them? Because they have evolved, just like Vim & Emacs.

• oblio 10y ago
  Well, for various reasons both of them don't really have any competition. Xcode, especially, is the IE6 of Mac coding. Only recently some competition has emerged, from Intellij.
  • ZenoArrow 10y ago
    I can't say anything about Xcode, but I can say that VS hasn't stagnated in that way, every new release seems to bring something worth having.
    • zxcvcxz 10y ago
      Is there a CLI mode?
      • ZenoArrow 10y ago
        You can perform a number of the functions of VS from the CLI. Were you interested in editing text from the CLI or was there something else you had in mind?
• kps 10y ago
  > Xcode is 13 years old. 27 if you count before Apple bought it (NeXTSTEP Project Builder / Interface Builder).
  • Nr7 10y ago
    True. I think VS is also based on Microsoft's earlier language specific IDEs, making it probably at least 25 years old as well.