I am annoyed by the error bubbles too because they truncate the actual error message - you have to open a whole new window just to see the entire message. In Ec

I am annoyed by the error bubbles too because they truncate the actual error message - you have to open a whole new window just to see the entire message. In Eclipse, you get a red (X) in the sidebar on which you can click (and a list of problems) so you never have to fight any extraneous windows just to see your error in context. In my opinion, Eclipse is way better than XCode (not to mention more versatile), and Eclipse's code assist (or whatever they call it) is far superior to XCode's precisely for the reason outlined in this article.