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I'm confused why the presence of Xcode would prevent one from using a Mac with whatever IDE they preferred. Atom, IntelliJ, VSCode, Sublime, VIM, etc... all wo

I'm confused why the presence of Xcode would prevent one from using a Mac with whatever IDE they preferred. Atom, IntelliJ, VSCode, Sublime, VIM, etc... all work just fine on Macs.

phaed 10y ago
Call me when "brew install visualstudio" works.
- kristiandupont 10y ago
  https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/ https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/ ..of course it won't help you with c++ development.
hellofunk 10y ago
You are correct. You don't need Xcode for all the code you write for Apple's platforms. You need it to build and link to Apple libraries or the App Store, but you can edit code elsewhere.
- slededit 10y ago
  You can compile and link without XCode too. Apple just makes it annoying to do so, and the documentation frequently says the equivalent of "just use XCode".
  - PetahNZ 10y ago
    "Apple just makes it annoying to do so" case in point
    - hellofunk 10y ago
      But this has nothing to do with actually editing your code; the majority of the iOS code I write and compile does not depend on Xcode or any of its utilities.