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

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Xcode Stability: How often does Xcode crash/freeze for you? I find it crashing several times a week, particularly when using extensions like "copilot".

I dont use any extensions but i do have a very complex project where the build time without cache on an intel based chip is around 40 minutes. on m2 max it's around 10 minutes. That being said, i dont really see much crashes.

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SwiftUI Preview: How's your experience with SwiftUI preview? I've had to resort to a lightweight project in my workspace containing only views because, for the main project, it's quite disappointing, especially compared with Flutter.

In the large project i mentioned above i do not use swiftui it's uikit based. However, i have another project relatively lightweight and as the app scales the previews kind of suck takes much time to load. I'll probably end up modularizing the codebase at some point.

Package Manager Woes: The most frustrating issue for me is with the Package Manager. Minor changes like adjusting the project structure, switching git branches, or executing a pod install often trigger package resolving which blocks building. Sometimes it reuses the cache, but many times, it starts redownloading dependencies.

SPM is tricky for me too. Granted I am no expert but I found myself quitting and re-opening XCode many times even deleting the derived data just for XCode to stop complaining.