My first experience using Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode

I come from a web dev background, so my opinions are probably suspect, but I’ve tried on a number of different occasions to write an iOS app (or even a simple MacOS app) for learning purposes…

…and I’m honestly surprised that Apple has such a robust developer community and numerous (fantastic) apps for all their various platforms!

Xcode is just a terrible experience all around. I just dread using it.

I’m not sure if things like JetBrains or even VS Code (a glorified text editor… made with Electron, no less) have spoiled me or somehow poisoned my expectations.

Given the author’s interest in developer tools, I wonder whether that makes him more or less patient when it comes to trying to entirely new tools and ecosystem.

Do tools suck because the makers don’t care or is the domain itself, in this case iOS development, so complex that the tools can’t keep up? Tools here being Xcode, swift, docs and their error messages.

It’s been an ongoing issue that the App Store does not have an easy way to download the latest version for your OS.