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How was what I posted an anti-IDE rant when I spoke clearly about using AppCode? The problem with XCode isn't that it's an IDE. It's that it's a shitty one, an
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
How was what I posted an anti-IDE rant when I spoke clearly about using AppCode?
The problem with XCode isn't that it's an IDE. It's that it's a shitty one, and Apple keeps trying to shove it on people by coupling the dev experience with their own IDE.
The right thing for platform makers to do is provide tools and infrastructure which can be used in a modular fashion by an ecosystem of third party tools. Offering their own IDE is fine, too, but it should not be required. This is best for the long term health of the platform, and best for developers, too.
- pjmlp 3y agoBecause you just did it again, arguing for tools not to depend on IDE. Being used alone, the usual talk of UNIX way, when in reality most CLI stuff has a bazillion of flags. JetBrains gave up on selling AppCode, as the large majority of developers on the Apple ecosystem couldn't care less.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoHe did not do it again. He complained that Apple tied development to ITS OWN IDE, hampering people from using OTHER IDEs. And he is correct. The problem is that Apple's development environment is such a pile of poorly-understood spaghetti and band-aided shit that I don't think anyone at Apple has the chops (or certainly the time) to clean it up.
- pjmlp 3y agoHe certainly did it, "The right thing for platform makers to do is provide tools and infrastructure which can be used in a modular fashion by an ecosystem of third party tools."