[keyle]

I wish Jetbrains could do what they did with .NET which is Resharper. A plugin for Visual Studio that brought IntelliJ like features and smartness to it. It was a breeze.

Unfortunately I don't think XCode is built to handle third party vendors plugins and it never will (which is why Appcode exists in the first place).

[mythz]

Xcode used to allow plugins but then disabled them in favor of relatively useless Source Editor extensions which offers nowhere near the capability required to build something like R#.

A stand-alone IDE like AppCode is the way forward, JetBrains usually take a while to get their new IDE's up to speed and catch up with the latest language & platform features, but afterwards is able to add a tonne of smarts and maintain feature parity fairly quickly as they've done with Rider which offers a much nicer & faster UX than VS.NET/R#.

[pjmlp]

My Visual Studio is an happy boy without Resharper bloat, never got the point of it.

[tonyedgecombe]

Every time I upgrade Visual Studio I try running it without Resharper. I’m finding I can last longer before I give in each time but I always do end up installing it.

[coldtea]

Maybe, but people say similar things for e.g. using Vim over an IDE too, though...