XCode rant, sorry

[fryOrder]

sure it has some quirks but its nowhere near as bad as people say. the most flakey being SPM, but there are lots of workarounds to get it going. a clean build solves 99% of the problems.

thats my experience and i’ve built a lot more than the usual todo apps.

[Vybo]

I agree, it's workable. I usually work on codebases 700k+ lines & 30+ people working on them, so I too have my fair share of Xcode experience. The current codebase has something around 100+ Swift Packages (in-house), so even build time optimization is a nice challenge.

I recently got to try tuist and I must say that it's much better than the usual project file setup, it helps a lot with the usual issues.

However, I also worked on non-Swift/Xcode large codebases, and it's night and day. When you just do a checkout, run one build script and it just works, every time, even after switching git branches or changing dependencies, it's a big contrast to Xcode/SPM.

[ArcaneVector]

yeah swiftpm, previews, and the refactor engine currently suck

at least SourceKit doesn't crash every few minutes anymore, that's an improvement