Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- Subject: Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:26:39 -0500
On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Wade Tregaskis wrote:
>> *No*. I've said it before (right here) and I'll say it again; this is *not* jumping to the documentation, and it is *not* doing what Xcode 3 did. It switches to the documentation window and it enters the double-clicked word into the search field, and it does the search, but it ****doesn't display the actual documentation**** on the double-clicked word.
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> Indeed, the regressions around this simple piece of functionality are disturbing. I also find that it rarely handles double clicks correctly. I have to triple or quadruple-click much of the time. It's often faster to just bring up the organiser (command-shift-2, obviously) and navigate to the desired docs directly, than play some kind of bizarro skill game with my mouse button.
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>> Once again I put forward my pet wild-and-crazy "dog food" theory that the people at Apple do not actually *use* Xcode for serious work. I know it sounds wild and crazy, but I have two kinds of evidence for this theory:
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> Occam's razor (and my own nearly four years working on developer tools at Apple) will present a different explanation: Xcode is used exhaustively within Apple, but the Xcode team just aren't good at producing a solid product. I'm not sure why that is; all the people I know on the Xcode team are very good developers, at least individually.
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> Someone else pretty well hit the nail on the head earlier when they suggested that developer tools just aren't given much top-level interest. I don't know if that can be blamed for the end result though.
Makes me wonder how AppleScript is still alive at Apple then. What, are there two people on it internally or only one?
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