Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by knighthacker » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

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Re: Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by knighthacker » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

Buy vs Build? Buy. They need this yesterday. Xcode has gotten so bad. It's not even funny anymore.

Re: Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by bigyabai » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

knighthacker wrote: post #2

Buy vs Build? Buy. They need this yesterday. Xcode has gotten so bad. It's not even funny anymore.

Instructions unclear, they're building a cloud-based CI/CD SaaS on top of it instead: https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

Re: Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by jrhey » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

Since when did we stop saying “IDE” and start saying “code harness”?

Re: Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by thisislife2 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #3

knighthacker wrote: post #2

Buy vs Build? Buy. They need this yesterday. Xcode has gotten so bad. It's not even funny anymore.

Instructions unclear, they're building a cloud-based CI/CD SaaS on top of it instead: https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

The future of Apple clearly is "subscriptions".

Re: Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by knighthacker » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC

jrhey wrote: post #4

Since when did we stop saying “IDE” and start saying “code harness”?

Since we stopped writing code and started writing prompts instead :)

Re: Apple needs a better coding harness than Xcode

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Post by knighthacker » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #3

knighthacker wrote: post #2

Buy vs Build? Buy. They need this yesterday. Xcode has gotten so bad. It's not even funny anymore.

Instructions unclear, they're building a cloud-based CI/CD SaaS on top of it instead: https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/

It hurts my eyes looking at this haha .. but that's different than the actual harness as we know it tho! Given their ecosystem, they'll always control the CI/CD part of it, which is fine. It's just painful to use XCode to get anything done anymore.