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by coldtea 2009 days ago
>XCode is a good example of what I mean. It's a terrible developer experience for anything but targeting Apple's platforms

It was and is built as an IDE for Apple's platforms/languages, so this point is moot, and doesn't prove anything general about macOS as a platform.

It's like saying Emacs is bad for developers, because SLIME doesn't really play well with Javascript coding...