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This used to irritate me, but now that I'm in the habit of breaking functions up I've come to prefer it. It makes for code that's easier for myself to read and follow further down the road, which I think is a reasonable proxy for readability by others.

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Writing modular code is good but that's a ridiculous reason to need to do so.

Xcode also trips on simple type errors and sometimes fails to even provide a line number where the error lies. As someone who just wrote a Swift app after no prior exposure, it's oddly immature in some basic ways after nearly a decade from launch.

Yeah I won’t defend it too much, Xcode/SourceKit/etc are clearly written in a way that assumes devs are writing perfectly idiomatic, smell-free code which isn’t very aligned with reality. I’ve more or less got a feel for what makes it grumpy so I don’t trip it up too often any more but it’s annoying on the odd occasion I do.

Yeah this is a major pet peeve. Especially when the compiler crashes. Growing up writing in C, I didn’t even know that was a thing.

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