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What gets in my way...I think "Xcode 4" sums it up. Almost everything Apple did to that once-great IDE has created endless frustration and slowed me down consi
by makecheck 15y ago
What gets in my way...I think "Xcode 4" sums it up. Almost everything Apple did to that once-great IDE has created endless frustration and slowed me down considerably (not to mention making my 2nd display practically useless). It was apparently designed by someone who doesn't do much programming, or at least someone who doesn't know how to multitask.
I can still use Xcode 3.x and Interface Builder for now, but I'm sure their days are numbered. So what I need (again) is a decent set of high-level Mac development tools. If I could open-source Xcode 3.x and start from that, I would.
Note that I've never used an IDE exclusively (I use makefiles and terminal-based text editing for instance), but basically Xcode is no longer suitable for the things that an IDE was useful for.
- buss 15y agoThat's really interesting. I haven't done any mac development (I'm almost entirely *nix or web dev), so I'm not aware of the difficulties with Xcode. I'm generally only using vim, but I've struggled through Eclipse (and its roughly weekly crash cycle) when doing java development to know the kind of problems IDEs can introduce. I've been meaning to do some iPhone & OSX development, so I will check out Xcode with a toy application and see what gets in my way. Thanks for the suggestion!