[andrewroycarter]

I'm so tired of all the IB hate. IB is a tool, and it should be used when appropriate. Sure you can't do everything in it, but for 80% of even "complex" views, things can be done significantly faster in IB. Doing all UI creation and layout isn't faster and more "hardcore", it's ignoring a tool that has been around longer than OS X and iOS that was literally made for the job! Have fun maintaining that mess of UI layout code!

[krichman]

Isn't it fair to hate it just due to the clunky interface?

Many times I find it difficult to select a subview under another subview. Or, when adding a subview, it is too eager to be the subview of a subview. Those are the tip of my list of grievances.

I use it! Sometimes it's simpler and faster to go with IB instead of code, and you are definitely right about maintainability. But I sure wish there was something as convenient that wasn't awful to use. That's actually how I feel about all of Xcode. (Yes, I've tried AppCode, I liked it even less.)

[jmah]

You can select a specific view under others with ctrl-shift-click. I don't know anything to help with its over-eagerness to add subviews, though.

[jbrennan]

Definitely. And Super Debugger can be used just as well for IB projects too (some things you can't test out with IB, like a corner radius).

And of course, this tool isn't just for UI tweaking. It's for any kind of messages you might want to send to objects. It's an object spelunker.

[andrewroycarter]

I'm looking forward to giving this a go at work tomorrow!