To me the thing is that there is usually a major problem of some sort with Xcode and it can take up to a year to resolve (when they release the next major version). For example in Xcode 14.1 there was a bug that would make it crash when trying to open a project. It would crash over and over and over until it finally opened. That was finally fixed in 14.3. 15 was great then with 15.3 a bug was introduced where any time you change branches the package cache became invalidated and you had to close Xcode and reopen it. Of course it’s still not fixed in 15.4. 16 might be solid but I can guarantee some extremely annoying bug will be introduced in a point update and won’t be fixed until the next major. It has been this way since I started using Xcode 9.I’d rather deal with a slow and cumbersome IDE than one that moves things around with every major update and introduces major bugs that don’t get addressed in in a timely manner because the IDE updates are tied to iOS releases for some god forsaken reason.
I was a fan of AppCode until JetBrains dropped it.
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