I used to think that way too until I opened my project in Visual C++ (with the Visual Assist addon). The productivity boost was so great that I've decided to n

I used to think that way too until I opened my project in Visual C++ (with the Visual Assist addon). The productivity boost was so great that I've decided to never use Xcode for C++ again and do all my development in a VM if I have to. Best alternative is Qt Creator and it's probably what I'm going to use for my next C++ project on the mac. Many people recommend CLion, but I've never really managed to actually use it (and it isn't free and runs on the jvm). Still VC++ is a powerful tool for C++ development, which is probably quite hard to beat, so having it on the mac would make using Windows totally optional :).