Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- Subject: Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- From: Crispin Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:24:59 +1000
On 29/02/2012, at 5:54 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
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> Oh, come on. You ran into some bugs, and they’re frustrating no doubt, but this is an overreaction. If you’ve been around long enough to remember MPW, you’ve certainly had to deal with many buggy releases from many different vendors. I’ve certainly heard a lot of cursing from co-workers about Visual Studio over the hears. It’s unfortunate but it happens. Especially idiosyncratic bugs that only happen to a small number of users; it sounds like Xc 4.3 is behaving worse for you than for most people. (I haven’t had any real problems with it myself.)
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While I'm aware how easy it is to get over-exercised about frustrations with dev tools, I think the problems with Xcode 4 are worse than you suggest. That's certainly the impression I get from others' comments in the twitterverse etc, though clearly that's hard to gauge, subject to lots of silliness, etc. But many really smart people have lost faith in Xcode.
I was an Xcode defender early on, being initially very pleased by its design clarity and consistency. But I've found myself ground down by time wasted by crashes, interaction design problems, and implementation infelicities. That all this comes from a *released* product from the richest company in the world makes it clear to me that something is deeply wrong with the Xcode 4 project as a whole. Hopefully Apple can do the rabbit-trick and somehow turn it around, but I need tools that work smoothly, right now.
For now my solution has been to surrender and use JetBrains' AppCode, which lacks surface elegance, and suffers from clutter, but is for the most part a pleasure to actually write code in.
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