[crowbahr]

Touching xcode to avoid touching Android is like touching concentrated hydrochloric acid to avoid breathing a fart

[cosmic_cheese]

I think IDE preference leans further towards subjective than many believe.

I find that IntelliJ IDEs are fine, but not nearly as amazing as they're often hyped up to be, and similarly while Xcode has problems it's not nearly as bad as is often claimed.

My experience is somewhat colored by Android Studio and JVM ecosystem stuff like gradle and proguard though, which have been more cumulative pain for me than anything Apple-side in a long time (Cocoapods was pretty gnarly but SwiftPM has fixed that).

[bigyabai]

There's definitely room for subjectivity, but my hard drive space is finite. And XCode takes up more room than all of my Jetbrains software combined.

[sweetjuly]

The linked article states that you'd use VSCode, so no touching Xcode.

[wiseowise]

Have you even opened the link? It uses VS Code.

[saagarjha]

Xcode, 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).

[rwyinuse]

I've used Jetbrains IDE's for most of my career, and after that trying Xcode felt like going back to Medieval times.

[realusername]

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.