[guessbest]

As much as I hate to say it, XCode is a really good C development environment that also works with C++. I've never had to mess with a makefile.

[wruza]

For all IDEs I’ve used, this meant a dead simple makefile, nothing to mess with. When I had to, I had to mess with these fancy envs even more, or they just couldn’t do it.

But if you meant that learning make is harder than using an IDE, then I agree. But why specifically XCode then? Lots of IDEs know C/C++ off the shelf.