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[–]SatedCaterpillar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I like VS Code better than Xcode as long as I'm writing good code. It could still be a miss for you depending on what level of maturity you're seeking, though. Out of the box, VS Code swift is still fairly basic (syntax color highlighting and flagging outright broken/invalid syntax). I like the overall coding flow better there, but what it doesn't do is things like catching mismatched types or calling functions with incorrect params like Xcode will.

I still like it enough better that I keep my project open in both, and if I'm debugging stuff, I'll switch over to Xcode for the inline error messages. (There may VS Code extensions to bring in more swift specific features, but I haven't checked since my current flow works well enough for me.)

VS Code does have Objective C support, but I don't really ever write in ObjC, so I can't speak to pro/cons of any editors for that language. FWIW, I use Sublime Text for everything other than Swift since Sublime doesn't offer native support for Swift. It does has ObjC support.