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I don't use it anymore luckily, but from a couple years ago: Xcode!! Unstable, baffling interface decisions, very poor on features and the features that are the

I don't use it anymore luckily, but from a couple years ago: Xcode!! Unstable, baffling interface decisions, very poor on features and the features that are there are unreliable. By far the worst IDE I've ever used.

diego_moita 6y ago
Agree. On 2020 that thing doesn't even have tabs for the open files. Xcode is one of the most obvious evidences of Apple's despise and contempt for programmers (others being crappy documentation, frequently deprecated APIs, appstore with authoritarian rules, etc).
fxtentacle 6y ago
Yeah and when it's updating some includes you can type faster than it'll show the new characters. That always really messes with my brain, when I press a key but a different (previously typed) character shows up instead.
andrekandre 6y ago
> By far the worst IDE I've ever used. xcode is a total pain, but i would have to say eclipse takes the cake imo...
tonyedgecombe 6y ago
I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but Visual Studio beats Xcode hands down. It's slow, unreliable, the code completion is abysmal, refactoring support is poor and the documentation is half hearted.
noema 6y ago
I haven't used Xcode much personally, but it automatically shoots up to the top of my hate list on account of the fact that it's a mandatory 20GB hog just to use the iOS Simulator. In my particular use case (React Native + Expo development), attempting to manually prune the installation files of SDK packages I will never use (e.g. Watch) somehow breaks the simulator.