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This is my biggest problem with the state of Apple's developer ecosystem right now. The tooling is just pathetic — I love writing in Swift, UIKit, AppKit and Sw

This is my biggest problem with the state of Apple's developer ecosystem right now. The tooling is just pathetic — I love writing in Swift, UIKit, AppKit and SwiftUI, but it can really feel like the tools are fighting you. They're just not dumping nearly enough effort into making their tooling top-notch. There's an extremely stark contrast between Xcode and Android Studio any time you need to do refactoring, for example. Xcode's refactoring tools are both limited and very very finnicky (to the point of being basically useless).

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
Xcode is a bug farm. A HUGE bug farm. Whenever it gets an update, I might as well just go out and catch a show. When I switched to an M1-based computer, the debugging became much finickier. I suspect that this is an OS problem, as opposed to an Xcode problem (because it happens with other System-calling apps), but sometimes, spun processes seem to hang, and I can bang away on "Force Quit," until I'm blue in the face. Nothing but a hardware restart (I can't do a soft one) fixes it. But Xcode brings the beast out on that one. It hangs and stutters quite frequently.