Xcode

It won’t even freaking finish installing, can’t stop it, restart it, delete it, nada

WHY IS THE PACKAGE LIKE THE SAME SIZE AS ALL MACOS SYSTEM FILESS?????

Everyone needs to pour one out in honor of those unfortunate enough to have to use this garbage every day.

this is the best app ever, even my kids are getting used to it

It’s infuriating that we can’t uncheck the setting to pair with a device wirelessly. It makes building to a device a really long, drawn out process with copying symbols and preparing etc etc. I just want to connect with a wire to build to a device.

I don't use much of this app but Story Board works very well for me.

When artificial intelligence is absent from the integrated system, the swiftly advancing user is left with no alternative but to engage someone to undertake this particular facet of application development. The concept of drag-and-drop functionality reigns supreme among such users, and the absence of this feature leads to the attrition of a user. The implementation of this functionality is akin to releasing a floodgate upon the world, with numerous individuals eagerly anticipating new avenues for engagement.

It good but me want more you no good if think bad I will angry and sad I angry you mean person

Still non-stop issues using SPM and switching projects. Get stuck for 30-60 minutes at a time just trying to get SPM to load the packages correctly at times. Watch building and linking to device never works correctly. Makes development for watch very difficult when dealing with any BLE libraries. Please work on tightening up these areas before putting more effort into Apple Intelligence. It’s like Apple never reads any reviews for Xcode because these same pain points seem to never improve year after year after year.

genuinely think it’s a scam. here I am, the very weird dude at the coffee shop who approaches you when you’re clearly in your phone, to tell you about it: At some point, Apple realized they could slow the development of all competing products by simply provisioning, with first-class accessibility & visibility, something which would be ignorantly presumed to benefit from vertical integration. it’s an absurd hog of memory and CPU. It is extremely slow to perform extremely simple tasks. There is no doubt that this thing is running extraordinarily inefficient algorithms on extraordinarily bloated & numerous subjects. you actually just can’t use it for a moderately complex project unless you’ve got an M1 and even then you’re going to be dreading your work unless you are strategically working against it’s own habits. Nothing can or will be done without extensive pigeon-holing to ensure your previews are encapsulated enough to be updated in reasonable time. I think there is other evidence that it is an attempt at sabotage - xibs, storyboards, schemes and targets. The confusion of natural ideation with the actual mechanics of putting text onto a page, or with putting text onto a page with the creation of views, or of settings for building with settings for how a build will be used - in a manner that is so oddly antagonistic that you’ll wonder what genius designed such an opponent. it’s rly something. I recall as an undergrad texting a friend “this is great!!!” about Eclipse in 2013. I was just about to discover RStudio, Emacs, and VSCode. I was about to become a programmer who understood how valuable IDEs could be. I did not even know how good I had it. Somehow, in 2025, I’ll be using a tool which is vastly inferior to most open-source tools produced by the most valuable company in the world.