KDevelop was released in 1999, rewritten (version 3) in 2001. XCode was released in 2003. Eclipse was around. Emacs and vim-based development environment were i

KDevelop was released in 1999, rewritten (version 3) in 2001. XCode was released in 2003. Eclipse was around. Emacs and vim-based development environment were immensely popular. And Visual Studio was much better than Xcode (and probably still is). Yes, it was not free, but it was worth its money. I know guy who used Visual Studio to write code for Linux. Xcode is not even open source. Intellij is open source, Eclipse is open source, Visual Studio Code is open source. At this point they should just write VSCode plugin to edit storyboards and language server for objective c and swift. Xcode is beyond redemption.