So I say this having used XCode about 10 years ago, but is XCode really that bad? Around 2000 or so, I was installing the Visual Studio -- Pre .NET Version --

So I say this having used XCode about 10 years ago, but is XCode really that bad? Around 2000 or so, I was installing the Visual Studio -- Pre .NET Version -- on a number of new developer workstations. I was not a Helpdesk or Desktop tech, but worked supporting servers -- they sent me over to do the installs because invariably "something wouldn't launch". Different IDEs were used depending on what language you were writing in with this monster of an app that was used to write programs in Visual Basic[0]. And the program was 5-10 times larger than the largest installed application and came with 2 CD-ROMs worth of documentation that needed to be installed locally[1]. I remember I'd start all of the installs at the same time because they took several hours to complete. [0] If it isn't obvious, this was a one-off job that I don't recall very much about. I didn't start using a Microsoft IDE until the first release of Visual Studio .NET (retroactively renamed "Visual Studio .NET 2002", I think). [1] For the younger among us, that's about 1.5GB in a world where two years earlier 16GB of HDD was very expensive.