I never have to force-quit XCode, no matter how shitty my code is. If my code hangs, a Command-'.' kills it and I can continue working, even if I'm debugging multithreaded code that hangs somewhere outside the event loop while the main thread is waiting for it to post a semaphore.
This article is nothing but useless XCode-hating. I can make a list of 20 things I don't like about XCode that would actually be valid issues with the tool, and none of the issues in this article would be on it. The things I don't like about XCode are how they dropped a lot of useful features between XCode 3 and 4, UI/usability issues introduced when everything had to be docked into a single Window, pretty lousy basic editing functions (where the f*k is 'find and replace in selection' and why do I have to use the stupid mouse so much when editing).
There's lots of things XCode can improve on. That said, if you look at how much the tool does do, and how well it does those things, my net conclusion is that it is still a great IDE, one of the better IDE's around, even despite all its flaws. Let's not all pretend Eclipse or Netbeans are so great and have absolutely no downsides, because IMO they are not even close to XCode in many ways. Visual Studio used to be very nice, it's been a while ago since I used it, but I can remember it was top quality.
This article is nothing but useless XCode-hating. I can make a list of 20 things I don't like about XCode that would actually be valid issues with the tool, and none of the issues in this article would be on it. The things I don't like about XCode are how they dropped a lot of useful features between XCode 3 and 4, UI/usability issues introduced when everything had to be docked into a single Window, pretty lousy basic editing functions (where the f*k is 'find and replace in selection' and why do I have to use the stupid mouse so much when editing).
There's lots of things XCode can improve on. That said, if you look at how much the tool does do, and how well it does those things, my net conclusion is that it is still a great IDE, one of the better IDE's around, even despite all its flaws. Let's not all pretend Eclipse or Netbeans are so great and have absolutely no downsides, because IMO they are not even close to XCode in many ways. Visual Studio used to be very nice, it's been a while ago since I used it, but I can remember it was top quality.