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Aren't you making things needlessly complicated as this point? I like Vim, and Neovim, but wouldn't it be better / smarter / faster to just use Xcode? It's gre

Aren't you making things needlessly complicated as this point? I like Vim, and Neovim, but wouldn't it be better / smarter / faster to just use Xcode? It's great that Neovim can be used for iOS and macOS development, I perhaps fail to see the point. Xcode isn't the greatest IDE developer conceived by man, it's probably not even in the top 10, but at least you know that it will remain fairly stable (as in it's a stable platform, not that it's unlikely to crash) and always support iOS and macOS in the latest version. Every bit of documentation and reference material out there is also going to assume that you run Xcode... Oh and as the article points out, you're going to need Xcode anyway.

sumuyuda 3y ago
Not really sure Xcode could be considered stable. Currently on 14.3.1 Xcode frequently crashes when switching branches or running pod install.
- basisword 3y ago
  Maybe things have changed, but as far as I remember you're supposed to close your workspace before running pod install.
  - happytoexplain 3y ago
    That's the point. Most modern IDEs are designed well enough that arbitrary changes to the files are handled reasonably. I am probably rare in that I like Xcode, but you can feel that it suffers from the cruft of age, or questionable architecture decisions long past. It's fragile and makes strange UX decisions that seem like the product of technical restraints being put on the designers.
    - basisword 3y ago
      I understand that Xcode should handle this better (and SPM doesn't require a restart when installing packages) but the complaint was basically "IDE crashes when I do thing I'm specifically told not to do".
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