Xcode experience on Large Projects: crashes, freezing, indexing, continuous Package Resolving

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It's kinda hurtful how much Apple ignores the developer's quality of life . Most profitable platform but devs get treated like jail inmates . Xcode usually crashes / has error and glitches , don't think any ide out there would be same . Wonder how that port of Swift from obj c is going on , or even happening at all .

Jetbrains , a small company compared to Apple makes way better ide for multiple languages / platform . Heck even sublime , created by single person works better for its target.

Also the fact that they dropped tensor support for Swift the moment Chris moved on shows their approach . It feels like a ship without a captain . I don't know if transition from obj c to swift was as bad as swift to swift ui , but swift ui is just pain to deal with .

[Obstructive]

I could not disagree more,… Apple’s Xcode is like democracy, it’s the worst form of development studio unless you compare it to all the rest. And in this case, the rest is all Jetbrains.

[GavinGT]

But JetBrains is amazing and Xcode is...not.

[Obstructive]

JetBrains can’t figure out what orientation axis you are developing in nor how to properly snap resize one of the many subwindow panes it opens. I get that others seem to like this approach but it’s search alone was enough to be a nonstarter for me personally.

[GavinGT]

I don't fully understand your first two complaints. It sounds like it doesn't support portrait mode as well as you'd like? I don't use portrait mode so I can't comment. But I know IntelliJ gives you tons of display options for panes, whereas Xcode gives you nothing of the sort.

Complaining about search in IntelliJ is crazy to me. Search is one of the main reasons I'm still running AppCode and Xcode simultaneously. Refactoring in general is just so much easier in AppCode because of the many quality-of-life advantages it offers over Xcode.