Sounds like some positive steps forward. I'm not a fan of the whole GUI IDE approach though, compared to the vi/CLI/REPL/scripts approach/ecosystem. I prefer m

Sounds like some positive steps forward. I'm not a fan of the whole GUI IDE approach though, compared to the vi/CLI/REPL/scripts approach/ecosystem. I prefer minimalism, simplicity, having as little cognitive structure/clutter on screen at once as possible, or in config files, with high automatability and minimum configuration complexity and boilerplate. For me, XCode failed in those areas. If you do iPhone development with XCode, for example, and IIRC, I once counted that there are approximately 8 different names or identities that are tracked for any given iPhone app. There were complex, counter-intuitive and under-documented ways in which they related to each other and were used. And if any were used wrong or collided somewhere, blammo. Then you had the multi-dimensional/multi-overidable/varying-opacity configuration system, and the iPhone app submission process/non-process, and it was a recipe for pain and grief. I will still use XCode and do iPhone development for money. But only for money. Not for any personal projects where I have acceptable alternatives.