Comments on: Did I Mention XCode Sucks?

By: bilal

bilal — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:17:18 +0000

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

By: DontMatter

DontMatter — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:36:46 +0000

@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.

By: Justin L

Justin L — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:45:18 +0000

visual C# is lightyears ahead of xcode, it’s amazing

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:13:58 +0000

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.

By: Ole

Ole — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:51:26 +0000

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!

By: xcode-sucks

xcode-sucks — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:21:03 +0000

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!!!!

By: Alex Forster

Alex Forster — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:57:00 +0000

1,000% agree. I wanted to like it, I really did. But it’s almost unusable.

By: The Curt

The Curt — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:55:54 +0000

BBEdit + xcodebuild + gdb! Rock on!