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There's definitely a load of Stockholm Syndrome in my post, but I really think that Xcode is a pretty decent IDE compared to most other IDE's bar Visual Studio and JetBrains products.

I'm also a big time Storyboard user, which can be a really great tool in expert hands.

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All the expert iOS developers I know use storyboards very sparingly, if at all. They can be useful for really quickly throwing together a prototype but they just don't scale to complex apps. There's way too much string typing, no way to apply consistent styles, no way to compose views out of reusable elements, tons of headaches with version control etc etc.