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Agree on all three points 1. I certainly wouldn't use Xcode for editing single files from the Finder. For opening a huge project with thousands of files, ready
by interpol_p 5y ago
Agree on all three points
1. I certainly wouldn't use Xcode for editing single files from the Finder. For opening a huge project with thousands of files, ready to build and fully indexed for autocompletion and finding, it still only takes a few seconds. That's the metric that impresses me
2. Yeah I have one long file in my current project (hundreds of thousands of lines) and it isn't pleasant to edit in Xcode
3. I am quite good at merging pbxproj after 10 years of doing it, even when files are added and removed. But yeah, it is a bit hairy
- iainmerrick 5y agoI'm curious about (1), because that isn't my experience at all! For me it takes its time to open, and indexing is not very fast. I'm only on x86 rather than an M1, but even so...! In comparison, I've found that VS Code is fast; after opening a workspace, opening any file by name or doing a live search by content is more or less immediate.
- interpol_p 5y agoYou're absolutely right, compared to VS Code or Sublime Text, Xcode is much slower to open a large project. It's a fixed cost of about five - ten extra seconds for me, once it's open it is fast to navigate I think I am used to comparing it to Android Studio as I mostly do native mobile development for Android and iOS