Re: XCode Rules!
Re: XCode Rules!
- Subject: Re: XCode Rules!
- From: Mike Lazear <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:47:50 -0700
We can banter back and forth all we want but those who hate Xcode
aren't going to change their opinion just because someone else says
they love it. Nor are those that love the product going to suddenly
change their opinion just because someone says they hate it.
From what I've read of this issue there is a real problem for Xcode
users who have either very large files and/or many open windows. For
them Xcode is unacceptable or very close to it. Other than fixing
the speed issues no amount of discussion is going to change their
opinion.
Likewise those that use the product in such a way to not have speed
problems may be very happy with the product and don't like to read
all of the Xcode bashing.
For me I have a project that is somewhere around 500,000 lines of
code. However, none of my files exceed 5,000 lines of code. I like
having my code in the grouped mode (all editing in one window)
instead of a bunch of editing windows. For me Xcode has no IDE speed
lags and compile times are acceptable. So for the most part I like
Xcode.
IDEs in general all have their unique features. If you happen to
like, or are very use to, a feature you hate to give that up to move
to a different IDE.
The worksheets of MPW were wonderful. I liked being able to
highlight a command on the worksheet and then hit enter to run the
command. We saved searches, compile steps and many other commands
this way. It was a nice feature that I haven't see in other IDEs.
CodeWarrior was the long standing workhorse of the Mac developer
community for quite a few years and robustly handled large files and
large projects. I used it for a while and it did the job but I never
really fell in love with CodeWarrior. But I know those who took
advantage of all it had to offer were mostly very happy with it. For
those people, certain aspects of Xcode are a large step backwards.
Xcode has some unique features of its own that I like. In particular
the ability to search thru existing searches, error lists and file
lists. I've not seen that feature in other IDEs and find it very
useful. Simple example of this is if I look at the list of errors/
warnings I can type "warn" in the search box and have it show only
the warnings. I can also get more specific and type a particular
warning message and see only those specific warnings.
I first started with ProjectBuilder and then moved to the very first
release of Xcode. It was a mess. It croaked multiple times an hour
and was not very useful. Apple has made vast improvements to the
product since then and hopefully they will continue to improve it at
a similar pace. If they do then hopefully these type of discussions
will become unnecessary.
Mike
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