> A decade from now Apple probably won’t even ship a local version of Xcode, and the transformation will be complete as all new development happens in Xcode Clo

> A decade from now Apple probably won’t even ship a local version of Xcode, and the transformation will be complete as all new development happens in Xcode Cloud where no line of code goes unscrutinized by the watchful eye of the mother ship. Any young folks wondering: yes, this exact same thing was being posted ten years ago, all the time. "Apple's gonna totally lock down macOS without any way around it, they hate general purpose computing" and the related "Apple's gonna merge iOS and macOS" are the apocalypse cult of computer geek forums. They might be right eventually, but only after being wrong a hundred times. And they never get the timeline right.