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Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used

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Re: Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used

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Post by apples_oranges »

Some valid points, but the compiler isn't Xcode and Swift isn't able to check the expression. Imho in these cases it's the developers lack of insight into how SwiftUI works, but otoh Apple often doesn't help with obtaining the insight..

They will also silently stop supporting some piece of library you rely on, leave it broken in some way or another, and just leave you on your own.

However, it has its good sides. The profiling tools are great for example. And I would rather work on 10 difficult problems with Xcode than on 1 with Visual Studio..

Re: Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used

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Post by asdfbank »

Thank you for sharing this, now I feel less dumb. Recently I had the pain of publishing my app (Flutter/Dart) on the apple Appstore, admittedly, my first experience using a mac in the last 30 years so I don't speak mac at all, but like, I know computers right?... famous last words.

I thought I was "holding it wrong"... like really badly wrong! and all I was trying to do was clone my repo and compile it for the store, that's it. took me nights and nights to get over each subsequent hurdle and false peak and missing import and then at the end, oh please upgrade and start again.

Thank goodness I only need it for that 1 step and I can do everything else on computers and software that is normal for me. As a first time app maker, I've had a super experience with Flutter in VScode.

Re: Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used

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Post by dtagames »

Apple has always been famously anti-developer. They write terrible documentation, too. You're supposed to suck up to them to get access to their precious users.

Everything in this article is a reason to stay away from everything proprietary about Apple development. If there is some software that can't be delivered with open web technology or an existing game engine, I'd like to know what it is.

Re: Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used

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Post by x0x0 »

He or she forgot all the gems about the xcode garbage randomly losing contact with ios devices and the random thrashing you use to attempt to reconnect. It's particularly galling since all my ios devices aren't even used: they're test devices only. So they're completely stock and solely run my app.

Re: Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used

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Post by sschueller »

Apple would have been avoided by developers if they weren't part of the smartphone duopoly. The tools and processes are just that bad.

Now Google has decided to make theirs even worse than Apple at least when it comes to publishing in the play store.

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