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sunnybeetrootyesterday at 7:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Refactoring works half the time, Android Studio is much more stable for basic developer tooling.


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ZenDroidyesterday at 7:31 PM

Because it's developed by JetBrains (with Google contributions), a company whose main business is writing really good IDEs. Apple on contrary is a hardware company that happens to build software. If they had delegated the XCode development to JetBrains, we would have had a great IDE for macOS/iOS development too. AppCode was damn good with zero support from Apple side, and despite the fact that JetBrains always needed to catch-up with Apple's breaking changes.

cosmic_cheeseyesterday at 7:20 PM

I've not found Android Studio to be particularly amazing for those kinds of features either. Sometimes they work, sometimes they half-work, and on occasion I've had them do the wrong thing entirely.

A lot of refactoring work across both platforms ends up being manual one way or another.