Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- Subject: Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- From: Robert Monaghan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:32:01 +0100
Hi Wade,
Many of Apple's other products are pretty solid. Its a shame that XCode 4 is pretty unstable.
XCode 3.2.6 -might- crash once every 2 to 3 months, Xcode 4.2 -will- crash about once an hour. I am not even interested in trying Xcode 4.3. This reminds me of how bad Microsoft Office used to be.
Here is my €0.02..
- Typing in a keyword into the Organiser to search the Developer documentation is heinously slow. On 12-core mac pro, Xcode will actually hang while I type the keyword in.
**Wow** how is this still possible in a GCD world?
- Full IB Plugins would be incredibly handy for me. Hopefully there is a decision to re-implement this. (Right after they fix some bugs that causes XCode to crash all of the time.)
- UI "Preferences" get stuck on a regular basis. My current snag is that my Toolbar is frozen into the "permanently hidden". Short of blowing away my Xcode prefs (again.) I have to keep re-opening the toolbar.
None of these problems are a show stopper, but I keep having that urge to switch back to XCode 3. Unfortunately, I have some products that I foolishly started in XCode 4.x and it would be painful to try to regress back. (Not impossible, mind you.. but really painful.) The bonus would be that the Dev tool would be really solid. I would get IB Builder Plugins support. The downside is that I wouldn't get the latest Clang complier/debugger and other nifty features that XCode 4.x has.
If anyone managing Xcode @ apple is reading, could you see about working on making XCode 4.4 stable? That would actually be a huge new feature to offer the developer community. I could then "happily" wait for a dev doc search textfield that doesn't choke my 12-core.
Bob..
On Mar 1, 2012, at 1:41 AM, 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.
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