alt Hacker News> I'm sitting here struggling to think of why the hell you need a terminal emulator in an IDE
This is the dumbest response anyone can ever have to being presented with the answer to their own question of "what's wrong".
Ok you don't think this is important but your customer (or whatever) just to told you it's important to them. Surprise surprise this is literally why xcode sucks (because Apple seeks to dictate instead of accommodating).
shrug I don't have customers, or whatevers. I've been using Xcode for over 20 years. In all that time, it's been denigrated and put down as rubbish, meanwhile I've found it to be pretty darn good.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but whatever it is, it works for me. I still don't see any advantage to putting a second-rate (they're never as good as the real thing) terminal into an IDE. Someone mentioned project-specific completions, but I can't say I've ever needed the terminal to do that, and I generally don't run IDE-specific tools (also mentioned) from the terminal either.
Maybe my natural workflow gels better with how Apple envisioned people using the IDE, perhaps I happen to be on the "golden path", but ... again shrug. Works for me.