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I just want Xcode, but less buggy.

A lot less buggy.

Sheesh.




You could try AppCode (personally I ended up preferring Xcode despite all its pain points, I can’t really get on with Jetbrains tools, but YMMV!)


I tried it. It was too much like Eclipse, for me (I am not an Eclipse fan). But I know a lot of folks that like it.


So much this! And faster. Why does single stepping take visible seconds and cause visible redraws of all the panes in the debugger? WTF? It wasn’t this slow when we had 25MHz CPUs running GUIs, why is it so slow now? (Yeah, systems are more complicated, but they’re also a hell of a lot faster and have more CPUs to distribute the work around!)

Also could we get documentation on things like Instruments? I don’t just mean stuff like “this button opens the whatever pane.” I mean how do you use it and what does its output mean? I’ve rarely seen such useless documentation. (Well, Unix man pages, I guess.)


lol yes. Really, I just want an XCode without all the cruft of an IDE. Like what VSCode is to VS.


Well, I like a lot of that "cruft." Things like Storyboard Editor, autocomplete, DocC, Instruments, etc.

But is is crazy buggy. It's also YUGE. It's only exceeded in size, by games.


XCodeCode? :)




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