[fish_fan]

Xcode is best for things like managing certs, not actually working in. The intellij version is pretty good; it integrates well with the build system and debugger.

I find it curious you bring up Expo as i've found that is the most opaque and user unfriendly IDE i've used in some time; i don't get why they don't just leverage VSCode and quality tooling over Yet Another Goddamn IDE.

[saagarjha]

Curiously, I feel the opposite way–Xcode's support for managing certificates is pretty awful (it's gotten better recently, but it still occasionally gives cryptic errors for no discernible reason). For actual programming, though, it works pretty well as long as it doesn't crash.

[c0mpute]

To clarify - Expo as a framework, and not XDE. I think they have made Expo eject a bit cumbersome but works with some wrangling. I like the the Expokit framework in general but don't want to be tied to the Expo's release chain.

[marksomnian]

If you mean XDE, it's not meant to replace VSCode or Sublime or anything. XDE just gives you buttons for common actions that you would normally do via the CLI.