After experiencing xcode and the mix of gui and code needed to build iOS apps, I realized that having mixed medium makes it hard to figure out how to do somethi

After experiencing xcode and the mix of gui and code needed to build iOS apps, I realized that having mixed medium makes it hard to figure out how to do something if you haven’t done it before and need examples. Using code alone allows for fast productivity because you can easily search and replace where needed. If you need to find out how to do something, you search the web and see examples. So your productivity speeds up substantially because you have all components in front of you to give you all necessary context at once. In XCode if there is something that requires a gui interaction to work, there are idiosyncrasies: some drag and drop needed or some deeply nested value in some third priority field that you don’t know about and you’re banging your head against a wall for each piece of functionality. Code puts everything on the same visibility level reachable through search (like a hash table). Gui alone also forces you to explore all fields and then experiment. But both mixed is hard.