Re: a breath of fresh air
Re: a breath of fresh air
- Subject: Re: a breath of fresh air
- From: Nathan Sims <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:10:42 -0800
On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> Given those constraints, and that the product is orders of magnitude more complex than that of any participant in this discussion, it is not fair to call the Xcode developers negligent or incompetent. Anybody who used any prerelease of Xcode knows that the public versions showed a huge degree of care and competence in improving the product and killing bugs. There have been regressions (the source-control reversion button worked in 4.0 and not since), but the fixes and added features overwhelm them.
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> People make their livings with Xcode. They want it not to defeat their efforts to produce good products. It's existentially frustrating. There ought to be fixes. I get it. But nobody's first answer should be that the developers and their management don't care, or aren't trying, or are too dumb to do it.
No developer asked for the Xcode 4 redesign, it was forced upon us. On the one hand, being essentially forced to use it yet it being rife with show-stopping bugs is an immediate issue, since we can't develop with an unreliable tool, so of course people are rightfully bewailing it's current state.
But putting all bugs aside, the underlying and inescapable issue is that the workflow paradigm that Xcode 4 embodies is *fundamentally the wrong approach* and no amount of bug fixes or bandaids is going to change that.
I can only hope that saner heads at Apple will prevail, and as we speak an "Xcode 5" with a developer-driven workflow flexibility is being resurrected from Xcode 3's ashes...
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