[72deluxe]

I used Borland Codegear and C++ Builder before that for a number of years, then moved to Visual Studio, spent significant time in Eclipse developing Android apps, and also spent a large amount of time in KDevelop and Code::blocks under Linux.

Xcode took some getting used to when I first came across it ("Where are all the buttons? How come the big PLAY button at the top runs the app but doesn't CONTINUE like it does in VS? Why are there no floating windows? How come the project and target options are a big list of stuff instead of tabbed pages? (The filter helps!) Why does it crash if I have a large header with many #defines in it? How do I easily switch between Release and Debug targets? Why is there no built-in TODO/FIXME filter?").... but having used it for a few years and having seen the updates to it and daily using it, I really really enjoy using it now. The debug overview of memory use and CPU/Network use and deep Instruments integration ("where am I leaking?!?! Let's just take a look!"), as well as the splitting usage by thread during runtime is really helpful and there isn't much going on screenwise, so I just have to look at code. The recent version is better than the previous one because it has a logical call graph shown for each thread instead of a popup irritating menu like the previous one (click click click click misclick arrgggh)

The navigation bar at the top is also strangely useful, with back and forward buttons! I never thought I'd miss that but I do if I go elsewhere.

A trip back to VS (admittedly an old version, thanks work) makes for unpleasant experiences (argh building is sooooo slow, where are parallel builds???).

The 'callers/callees' list is really helpful when inside a function to see where things are getting called from; admittedly no refactor support for C++ is disappointing but I don't really use refactoring much.

EDIT: One thing I really really really miss from Visual Studio is the Ctrl-Shift-Space shortcut for showing function parameters. You get them as a hint first time in Xcode and it might shove them into the text where you can tab between parameters but with overloaded functions it typically chooses the wrong function. With VS the popup hint dynamically changes as you're typing to show the right overload, and I miss it.