alt Hacker NewsXcode, for all its faults, is largely pleasant to use. This is not true of Android Studio, which looks and works as a Java IDE (derogatory).
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realusername • last Sunday at 7:11 AM
You can't be serious, Xcode is the worse IDE I ever used, while Android Studio isn't great, it cannot be compared to that.
Xcode is so sluggish it's slower than an electron app despite being native, the xcode app upload is so broken even Apple released a third party tool to bypass their own IDE and its undocumented config files look like from the 90s and do not work well with git.
The UI is sort of okay but that's not going to cut it. You can feel the decades of cruft in this IDE, it feel like using Borland.
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I've used Jetbrains IDE's for most of my career, and after that trying Xcode felt like going back to Medieval times.