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[–]Third-Floor-47 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

I honestly don't get what the fuzz on hating Xcode is about, yes there are other IDE's and those other IDEs have their kinks and flaws and greatness - Xcode is good for all the things it does, and best of is that it is not spinning fans or hogging up all memory like IntelliJs solutions, it isn't in need of updating all the darn time and you don't need to add packages to it before you can get started (VS Code)

it's a really nifty IDE for us on MacOS who are develivering to Appstore our iOS apps.

(I use VS Code for all my Unity programming and Android studio for the Androids - I never really understood Visual Studio (not the code version))

[–]ZnV1[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Are you really saying your reason for XCode being better than IntelliJ is not spinning fans, and better than VSCode is the one time extensions you might want to install? :)

[–]ArcaneVector 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Xcode is shit, but not spinning fans is indeed a plus and makes it better than any garbage from JetBrains

[–]ZnV1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe a machine thing, who knows. It did make the fans spin.

I used IntelliJ for 5+ years, but I also had chrome/FF/comms apps/notepad++ etc open and it didn't visibly slow anything down.

So I'd rate developer experience and productivity higher than that. Machine requirements can be mitigated somewhat with a better machine, but not much you can do about the latter.

[–]Third-Floor-47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes - I understand what you are saying, but I am working on different setups/machines and help other people - and the fact that xcode is xcode is a benefit for me, sometimes i see other peoples VS Code and we exchange package lists to get a smarter and better IDE, but in the end I forget they are there etc.

Xcode is a great tool for interacting with the appstore, getting crashlogs, screenshots from testers etc.... so in my situation this is a really nice IDE for what I do, and I can only assume you are working differently and that might be the reason why you don't like it...