[josephg]

I’m a polyglot and love trying new languages and platforms. I’ve spent serious time with eclipse (Java), IntelliJ (rust), vscode (rust, javascript, typescript, C), vim (all), visual studio (C++, c#). I have lots of Apple devices, I care about platform-native software and I love the swift programming language. And call me crazy but I loved Xcode with Obj-C back when it was 3.x.

So I can say with confidence that writing swift using modern Xcode is the worst experience with an IDE I’ve ever had. Dropped keystrokes, random crashing, device-dependent compiler errors (“Error: this method spent too long type checking”). And so on. It’s an obvious, avoidable disaster zone. Dear Apple, fixing the bugs in your software is more important than adding new features!

In comparison, VSCode+Typescript and Visual Studio+C# are the best IDE experiences I’ve had. Fast, stable, smooth, reliable and easy to set up. And little things work well - like inline documentation, autocomplete, project wide renaming and integrated debugging. Microsoft nails it. IntelliJ+Rust is close but it has a few obvious rough edges.