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I've been super impressed by Android Studio overall - it works way better than any other platform-specific fork of a popular editor I've used (looking at you, Arduino). XCode is a waste of my time - it's slow, buggy, and the errors are useless if they decide to ever show up.

With all the "ai text editor" startups we've seen, someone just needs to find a way to hack the XCode build & emulator functionality into a useable editor, and they'll have thousands of paying users in a week.

Ah, but you’d have to use Xcode to build the editor… are you volunteering?

At least XCode doesn't hang the machine indexing files, or requires 16 GB to be barely usable.

And Xcode build failures usually tell you what's actually wrong, not some obscure Java/Gradle error you need to Google for 5 minutes to find the right stackoverflow post telling you which setting to change so it will build.

I used JetBrains AppCode until they killed it off. It was slower than Xcode, but felt way better to use than Xcode's text editor. Too bad they discontinued it, it probably wouldn't even be as slow on the M chips.