"On the other hand, not knowing and not using the tools for your language is also a problem," To be fair - XCode is a problem. iPhone Apps are not rocket scie

"On the other hand, not knowing and not using the tools for your language is also a problem," To be fair - XCode is a problem. iPhone Apps are not rocket science. There is no reason for the massive bureaucracy and confusion of XCode - or even Swift. Not only does Swift try to do too much as a language - dealing with XCode is like dealing with the California DMV. My god, man the compiler options. Pages and pages of options. As far as I'm concerned, the biggest failure of the 'Swift' decision, was to be so tied to the old language standard, and to XCode. The only possible advantage of XCode from a developer perspective is maybe the UI designer, but even then. Obviously there's a huge investment in Xcode But ... Has anyone tried VSCode lately, or Atom? I mean it's possibly to have a 'light' editor and basic compile chain in which we can do powerful things. Or none at all. I personally loathe using Android Studio or XCode - it feels like working for the government, on a team of 3000 people building a web-site for the local library that never gets into production. Anyhow, I jest. I think there is rationality in wanting to be able to have a language work without an IDE.