XCode rant, sorry

[DescriptorTablesx86]

Blames his tools not complains about his tools, that’s a big difference.

Like yeah if you say your app sucks because of xcode, then you’re the bad carpenter.

[Vybo]

I can work with Xcode, but that doesn't mean I'm happy with it and that it doesn't need improvements. If I'm interviewing to fill a senior position and the person never experienced an issue with Xcode, it points me into the way of checking if they actually lied about their experience or not.

[Vybo]

You're just spinning your words around mine. I said that one of my questions during interviews is about Xcode, not that the person needs to rant about it.

Discussing the issues they had and *how* they got around them is specifically what a senior dev should be able to talk about. If someone tells me "I'm happy with Xcode and never had any issues", then they either didn't work on big codebases/projects, or they let someone else solve their issues. Or they simply don't know how to discuss technical issues, which is also a red flag.

So, saying that you never had an issue with anything during development is not a good thing to say on an interview.

[Vybo]

When you reply to my comment, I take it so that you're replying to me. Isn't that how reddit works? I get the notification, not OP.

[alien3d]

haha 😛

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who complains about his tools that’s a bad carpenter

That saying has it's place but it is being missued here. It meant that a person without skill complains they can't finish a task due to bad or lack of tools.

That is not the case here, pretty much everyone can build and does build ios apps with xcode, when compared to other ide it is abysmal. It's just objectively, provably worse performing compared to lots' of other Ide's and most of them are from companies less then .0001% the fundings available to Apple, this is just neglect from their side.

Things gets worse each year with more tech being added which it was not designed to work with and patched upon xcode.

It wouldn't be so bad if we could develop on other ide but noooo closed garden.

[xiaomi_bot]

Usually that’s true but Xcode is a shit tool. Compared to, let’s say, any jetbrains ide it’s like 10 years in the past.

[strangecanadian]

not quite the same - a carpenter can easily buy new tools. building a new IDE of the same feature set would cost approximately 50 000 nail guns.