Re: Anybody really, really using Xcode 3 ?
Re: Anybody really, really using Xcode 3 ?
- Subject: Re: Anybody really, really using Xcode 3 ?
- From: Timothy Standing <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:36:33 -0800
I spent an entire day using it, got all my libraries and
applications building under it, and then started to try and write and
debug code with it. The debugger wasn't reliable, text editing was
painfully slow with large files, the find includes that silly
animation which makes quickly searching for a piece of code by using
find totally impossible. So I figured I shouldn't waste any more
time and gave up. I figure that like Xcode 1.0 and Xcode 2.0, it
will be about 6 months before 3.0 is really useable.
Thanks to the Xcode team though for providing Xcode 2.5. At least
this time I won't be stuck on the old version of OS X while I wait
for a useable version of Xcode 3.0.
I just wish someone on the Xcode team realized that what developers
really want is reliable tools, all the extra features really don't
add up to much it the core functionality is not there. Maybe it
would have been better if the engineer who wrote the fancy animation
for find had instead profiled the text editor and fixed the speed
problems when editing large files. I keep thinking of all the
"innovations" which past versions of Xcode have introduced which I
will never use because I don't trust that they will actually work
(e.g. zerolink, predictive compilation, etc.). How can I trust these
to work correctly, if the debugger window can't even clear
breakpoints reliably or display a variable window reliably and Xcode
can't reliably display a class browser in a Cocoa project or reliably
bring up a structure definition when I command double clicking on its
name (all bugs in 2.4.1).
Sorry for the rant, I've just been really frustrated by the whole
Xcode experience. When I first started using Mac OS X, one of the
things I loved was the reliability of the tools (ProjectBuilder).
Sadly, that has never been the case with any version of Xcode (2.5
seems to get closest - except that I can't get gdb to work in two
machine mode if the machines have different ISAs).
Tim Standing
SoftRAID, LLC
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