I'd even (somewhat tongue in cheek) say that the text editor is the worst and least important part of Xcode. :)
(In fairness it's been improving in recent years but it's still not flexible/customizable to my TextMate taste.)
(In fairness it's been improving in recent years but it's still not flexible/customizable to my TextMate taste.)
Has it? In my experience, the Swift rewrite of Xcode source editing has made it vastly more buggy. I forget exactly when this happened, Xcode 8? 9?
SwiftUI has done well to expose SourceKit/Xcode's weak spots. Nearly all of the performance improvements brought to both in the last major release were a result of SwiftUI applying pressure in the previous release.
Swift is a lovely language but the experience is thoroughly and totally ruined by Xcode. Xcode manages to make eclipse feel lightweight and snappy.
not only that, but ive seen bluetooth stack blow up and loose all connections to my keyboard/mouse under those circumstances as well
> Xcode manages to make eclipse feel lightweight and snappy.
its been slow since xcode 4... never really recovered from glomming interface builder into the ide
I remember when Xcode 4 came out. It was slow and buggy we all thought they’d fix it over the next few releases. That just never seems to have happened. It’s a pity - for all of apple’s history of amazing UX, Microsoft’s visual studio (and vs code) are vastly better IDEs for writing software.
1. keyboard repeats keys under high load situations
2. mouse cursor lags badly (like seconds) when switching darkmode or an external monitor...
yea, xcode just seems to be stuck in "itunes mode" where every release seems to just tweak thing but never fundamentally improve... i hope this doesnt forebear "apple music" version of xcode (starts sweating)