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by seviu 497 days ago
No refactoring tools, lack of autocomplete, having multiple targets break compilation, errors in the ui, crashes running unit tests, it freaks out when switching git branches, spm can’t handle proxy servers, never ending indexing… List goes on and on. Xcode used to be good at around version 3. Everything that came after that has been disastrous.

Meanwhile Android Studio or VS Syudio are tools which are a joy to use and are built to help you and not to be constantly on your way

Fact is Apple should do like Google and admit there are better ides out there
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andrekandre 496 days ago 

  > Xcode used to be good at around version 3.
before the merging of interface builder into xcode: it never recovered...
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frizlab 496 days ago
I hate the other IDEs tbh

Yeah Xcode has its quirks but so does everything else. Nothing is perfect in this world.

What actually bothers me is Apple is now apparently trying to copy other IDEs (poorly) and making theirs worse for it. E.g. the new commit view which is an atrocity. They had something buggy yes, but at least decent. Now they have something buggy AND with a terrible UX.

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