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There’s this hate for Xcode that I see popping up every once in a while, often times by non-native devs. I honestly don’t get it. I’ve tried everything under t

There’s this hate for Xcode that I see popping up every once in a while, often times by non-native devs. I honestly don’t get it. I’ve tried everything under the sun and Xcode is by far my favorite IDE. It’s intuitive, fast and is getting more and more QoL improvements that are much appreciated. Is it annoying at times? Yeah sure, there are some running jokes between me and a bunch of other indie devs, but it’s mostly in jest. I can’t recall the last time I ran into an actual issue that ate up my time and was a showstopper. Perhaps it’s a matter of preference, because the no 1 suggestion by the haters, VSC, is something I personally hate. Unintuitive as hell and yet another addition to the Electron Hall of Shame.

armchairhacker 3y ago
There was a time period when Xcode was truly awful: incredibly slow, crashed often, the syntax highlighter kept crashing so you’d be editing code with no syntax coloring forget autocompletion or diagnostics. I’m glad AppCode existed at this point because it was basically unusable. I believe this dark point was when Swift came out, up to 2.0 or 3.0. They definitely rushed it and I believe rushed a lot of other features into Xcode. But otherwise, Xcode in the early days was great, and Xcode today is great. I suspect most of the haters are remembering the bad times. Or maybe they have an old computer, and Apple software is known for being slow on older devices (“planned obsolescence”, I think Apple just adds bloat to their software when they develop faster hardware because they don’t notice). Or maybe they are complaining because Xcode is ridiculously large (it requires like 40GB free space to install) and does weird stuff when installing, there are probably issues you can run into with certain system configurations (particularly with, again, older systems). Or maybe we’re spoiled by good IDEs (even VSCode is fast despite being Electron, I still prefer JetBrains and AppCode).

armchairhacker 3y ago

There was a time period when Xcode was truly awful: incredibly slow, crashed often, the syntax highlighter kept crashing so you’d be editing code with no syntax coloring forget autocompletion or diagnostics. I’m glad AppCode existed at this point because it was basically unusable. I believe this dark point was when Swift came out, up to 2.0 or 3.0. They definitely rushed it and I believe rushed a lot of other features into Xcode. But otherwise, Xcode in the early days was great, and Xcode today is great. I suspect most of the haters are remembering the bad times. Or maybe they have an old computer, and Apple software is known for being slow on older devices (“planned obsolescence”, I think Apple just adds bloat to their software when they develop faster hardware because they don’t notice). Or maybe they are complaining because Xcode is ridiculously large (it requires like 40GB free space to install) and does weird stuff when installing, there are probably issues you can run into with certain system configurations (particularly with, again, older systems). Or maybe we’re spoiled by good IDEs (even VSCode is fast despite being Electron, I still prefer JetBrains and AppCode).