Agreed. I’d love to see Apple break the core of Xcode out into a separate app with a pared down feature set (text editor, file explorer, debugger, console, etc)

Agreed. I’d love to see Apple break the core of Xcode out into a separate app with a pared down feature set (text editor, file explorer, debugger, console, etc) give it LSP support - and then make it extensible and blazing fast. Basically VSCode but mac native. I really don’t want all the visual editors and previews. Interface builder, Core Data Model Editor, even Swift UI previews feel so half-baked that they’re effectively unusable anyway. Swift packages are a delight because they’re purely text based. As coders, we’re working with text all day. It doesn’t make sense to context switch to dragging boxes around a canvas to wire things up. I’d rather they invested the engineer time into the core editor and made it rock solid. My hunch is that they spend so much time on them because they look great in demos, but when it comes to the end of the beta cycle and the tool is still broken, it leaves a bitter taste. Simplify it.