Re: XCode Falls Short - for now
Re: XCode Falls Short - for now
- Subject: Re: XCode Falls Short - for now
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:49:08 -0500
On Oct 30, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Steven Fisher wrote:
On 2006 Oct 30, at 11:23 AM, David Alger wrote:
What version do you use? I have versions 6 and 8
Until a few months ago, I was using Codewarrior Pro 4, Codewarrior
Pro 8 and Xcode on a daily basis. I don't use Codewarrior Pro 8
that much anymore. And I would gladly switch entirely to Xcode if
given a choice.
My point was that all these glowing memories of Codewarrior must
come from some mythical and imaginary Codewarrior Pro v15. Because
Codewarrior never got anywhere near as good as people are
describing it. The ones I continue to use to this day are plagued
with bugs and missing basic features, user interfaces that move
from beyond poorly thought-out and right into outright hostile, and
back in the day -- well, their developers seemed good if you could
contact one, but most of their support was staffed by an equal
number of all-but-terminally bored humans and highly trained
bipolar weasels.
Rather than think we're delusional, consider the possibility that we
use CW differently than you and have different needs. In my case I've
been using CW since something like CW 4 (not Pro 4, 4). My needs are
very simple. Most of the time I'm working with one project, which is
an application. No plug-ins, no subprojects, no third party
libraries, no version control (I'm the only person working on it), I
don't even set up new projects on any kind of regular basis. I spend
my time writing new code, rewriting exiting code, compiling,
analyzing what the code does at different points, and using the
source level debugger. Occasionally I add a new file to the project.
For the analyzing I do a lot of searches and frequently jump to
definitions. CW does all this effortlessly. Xcode does most of this
effortlessly, but Xcode's implementation of Find in Project and Jump
to Definition (when there are more than 20 implementations of a
function) are absolutely *not* conducive to the way I work. So while
I'm sure Xcode improves on a number of issues some people had with CW
-- especially issues of a more modern nature like perhaps packages
and frameworks -- those areas simply were not issues for me in CW.
OTOH, if I can't navigate and find my way around my code quickly and
efficiently (and I can't in Xcode), *that* is a big problem for me.
Larry
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