Re: XCode 4 - Thank You!!
Re: XCode 4 - Thank You!!
- Subject: Re: XCode 4 - Thank You!!
- From: Chris Cleeland <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:46:45 -0500
When you first said "Eclipse", I had to choke back a little
regurgitant, because Eclipse is about the worst environment I've ever
used...for C/C++. For Java it's not so bad though I do find it to be
a ridiculous resource hog.
But all the things you cite that you like about Eclipse & Xc4 are
completely orthogonal to the largest complaint I've seen on here so
far: the window issue. As a matter of fact, Eclipse actually lets the
developer tear off panes into separate windows, which I often do.
Very convenient for multiple monitor setups.
While I dislike the all-one-window style, I can live with it if that's
what's necessary. My primary gripe is the continually narrowing view
of the world where all source-code activities must fit into a narrow
view of a "project" that must be arranged in a specific way, have
specific targets, etc. Want to edit existing code that doesn't fit
the model? Too bad--you must import the whole thing into an Xcode
project. Want to debug an executable that was built outside xcode?
You either have to import it or attach (which means that certain types
of debugging activities, such as startup, are extremely difficult).
I've developed on this stuff since the days of NeXTStep, and while
each iteration has gotten easier to use in the way that the xcode
developer intended, it's gotten harder to use for people who don't
think like that developer. Overall, I think this is a negative.
Rather than permitting people to use best-of-breed tools, those who
don't think have to go out and either build their own, use something
less capable (Eclipse), or fall back to old-school tools such as
emacs/aquamacs/vim, make, grep, etc.
I will freely admit that I'm not a big fan of IDEs primarily because
my background is C, ObjC and C++, and I've yet to find an IDE that
doesn't force-feed a workflow on me not to mention fail to live up to
its marketing (the best of these appears to be Visual Studio on
Windows since they have such tight coupling/integration with the
compiler).
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