OK, so tonight I’m trying to get some work done. I’ve been annoyed that command double-click doesn’t work, so I figure out code sense isn’t turned on. I turn it on… crash. OK. Restart the app, open the project… crash. Third time’s a charm tho, so I open it again… crash. This is single-handedly the buggiest dev tool I’ve ever used. There was another bug I’m reminded of where I was showing someone how to set command line arguments and I had added a blank argument. Well, every time you went to run the target program, XCode would crash. Surprise! We didn’t realize it was that until I remember we played in there and I turned off the argument (it was checked). Worked fine.
XCode, I hate you. From hell’s heart, I spit at thee!
And now I have to now spend time figuring out what the f*#$ is going on with this piece of crap now. Yay! Time-saver!
UPDATE: The problem I had was related to indexing the project. Recently I tried using indexing again and it all finally seems to be working. Yay! But I still hate it 
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BBEdit + xcodebuild + gdb! Rock on!
1,000% agree. I wanted to like it, I really did. But it’s almost unusable.
I work on software for Mac OS X and Windows. And I really, really wanted to like xcode but the reality is I absolutely dread working in xcode.
I HATE XCODE!!!!
It’s been my 124th attempt to write some code in xcode. After 20mins of pain, I opened VMWare, write code in Visual Studio and pushed it Mac via SVN.
An IDE can’t suck more than Xcode!
I agree! XCode sucks! Especially after using Microsoft Visual Studio.
XCode has their framework and so does Microsoft. However, Microsoft is a lot easier to use (code sense is light years ahead of XCode) and their documentation is also ahead of XCode’s.
C++ is also becoming obsolete, especially in a managed code envioronment. C# is far easier to use (and I have written a lot of C++ code) and makes a programmer far more productive.
visual C# is lightyears ahead of xcode, it’s amazing
@Oli+Scott+Justin: you’re obviously doing something very wrong…
And especially if you’re referring to Xcode’s documentation (both for the tool but also the Cocoa frameworks) as lacking. You’ve probably been damaged by years of staring at something as awful as VS’s UI and MSDN.
i also wanted to like xcode…but it sucks…
i have yet to upgrade to xcode 4 though.. heard it’s a bit VS’s UI and
xcode so far doesn’t come close to java,msdn or even php