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Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Post by s_dev »

radicaldreamer wrote: post #24
mohsen1 wrote: post #19

I built an entire iOS app without opening Xcode UI even once. Why so many iOS engineers prefer XCode?

Is this bait? XCode has been a mainstay of iOS development ever since iOS was introduced and is a successor to Interface Builder on the Mac. Why wouldn’t engineers prefer tools they’ve been using (mostly happily) for a decade+?

>Is this bait?

I don't think it's a serious question or the person is very young.

To answer the question. Xcode is the default IDE for iOS development. The default option will always be a practical choice.

JetBrains or Anthropic could get bought by a larger company or dismantled by the government somehow. Should anything happen to Apple (unlikely as that may seem) the entire iOS ecosystem would be gone as well negating any need for a default.

Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Post by egorfine »

flohofwoe wrote: post #13

Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/ Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix and optimization releases instead of hype-chasing.

Bugfixes won't make shareholders happy while shoving AI down our throats will.

Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Post by radicaldreamer »

OGEnthusiast wrote: post #10

I wonder how much of the recent Apple OS releases were done with "agentic coding".

According to Mark Gurman (Bloomberg Apple beat reporter), Apple “runs on Claude.” https://x.com/tbpn/status/2016911797656367199?s=61

Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Post by k_bx »

OGEnthusiast wrote: post #10

I wonder how much of the recent Apple OS releases were done with "agentic coding".

When I see Activity Monitor that doesn't show tabs until you nearly go full screen – all I can think is that this shit product was built even before vibecoding was a thing. Truly ahead of its time.

Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Post by gwking »

flohofwoe wrote: post #13

Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/ Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix and optimization releases instead of hype-chasing.

For the record, I started using Xcode before it was called that and people have said this almost every year since. As I recall there was a big hit to its quality when they converted it to obj-c’s short lived garbage collection, and it felt like it never got back to reliable after that.

Re: Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

flohofwoe wrote: post #13

Building castles in the sky while the foundation is rotting away :/ Xcode really needs a couple of years of pure bugfix and optimization releases instead of hype-chasing.

A full rebuild might be throwing out the baby with the bath water. As someone who’s been using it since it was known as Project Builder, bugs seem mostly concentrated in the XIB/Storyboard editor (formerly known as a Interface Builder), SwiftUI live preview, and SwiftPM package resolve.

In a project with code-only UIKit, only a smattering of SwiftUI for small components, and minimal dependencies, Xcode isn’t too bad of an experience and I’d say comparable to and in some ways better than Android Studio (that localization XML editor, not mention Gradle… ugh).

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