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I strongly disagree, XCode is so bad compared to VS Code and JetBrains I have to believe that Apple engineers are forbidden from using anything else, because they don't seem to want to improve it.

My experience was primarily driven by C/C++ development though. I've heard better things about swift, but I just can't grok how the hell xcode projects are supposed to be used at all and the tool is so slow it's unusable.

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I agree that in terms of pure editor and IDE capabilities, JetBrains is better than Xcode. I am rather thinking of the actual Apple ecosystem with SDK, API's etc.