Xcode

“the keychain that CLI tools included with macOS 27.2 and Xcode use still contains the compromised eMudhra certificates”

“Xcode 27 removed the extremely painful onboarding workflow for any new project”

“At least I wouldn't need to buy a special computer to run it, like the Xcode development environment for iOS.”

“I'd also recommend Xcode 27 beta unless you teach your agent the Xcode MCP.”

“set up your entire app as a swift package, and then the Xcode project with a single main source file”

“Xcode's a lot more than a wrapper for UNIX utilities. For example, it has an entire build system.”

“Sorry we only support Xcode on the latest version of MacOS, how else will your build machine roll out of the OS support window and make you replace a functioning machine?”

“it doesn't overwhelm them, giving them a great entry experience into app development”

“Xcode 27 is such a huge leap forward in the ergonomics of vibe coding with Xcode”

“Xcode 27 which is in beta ships a much better codex integration. There are problems in Xcode that are frustrating”

“I was thrilled when swift build came out, and then appalled at how badly Xcode adopted it”

“Super convenient change that makes it practical to do more things while in the recliner”

“Little by little, Xcode is making progress. It's still far from perfect, but at least it's getting better.”

“Apple does not make it super easy to find. The easy "happy path" in Xcode is to only support the most recent OS versions.”

“The advantage of my current setup is that it's the terminal and Xcode, just as it has been for over 20 years.”

“It's only distributed through the Mac App Store, and downloads from Mac App Store require an Apple ID.”

“The default experience in Xcode is that a release-mode app you make will be sandboxed, undebuggable, have protected keychain entries other apps can't read”

“Xcode has decent backdeploy support (Xcode 26 supports targeting iOS 15, the final version to run on the 6S)”

“No issues besides the fact that it’s not notarized and you have to trust it through Gatekeeper”

“people that complain about XCode don't know how well they have compare to what it was before”

“the live preview was so tempramental and crashed so often it was barely usable”

“It was head and shoulders above many of the alternatives for mobile app development back then”

“I've been using Xcode for over 20 years... I've found it to be pretty darn good.”

“they've been adding new features but never finished them and taken the time to properly bugfix them along the way”

“Okay, this is going to help somewhat. But what I wish I had was command-line access to everything in a reliable way.”

“"visually by capturing Xcode Previews" is probably the thing that will make this worthwhile”

“Xcode isn’t too bad of an experience and I’d say comparable to and in some ways better than Android Studio”

“it somehow corrupted either my project's metadata and/or its own internal preferences so badly that it would no longer launch”

“one of the best designed, best functioning, and most powerful suites for programming”

“one of the most powerful and well designed development and instrumentation environments I've ever used”

“one of the worst ide in mobile/desktop development and an embarrassment for a company of apple's size and profits”

“as Apple's piled additional features and APIs into Cocoa/Xcode I find it quite a bit less coherent or intuitive or ergonomic than it used to be”

“It's even more consistent than VSCode, which occasionally leaks memory and blows itself up.”

“The UI is nice and I already know how to set up projects so it’s much better for me.”

“Really the biggest disk eater is Xcode's default behavior of creating a huge set of simulators for every platform.”

“I've found it to be worst when using Xcode / simulator and having headphones on for music.”

“Current Xcode only supports a short list of the most recent iOS SDKs as targets”

“What solved that for me was to leverage the for-LLM docs Apple ships with Xcode”

“at the time I enjoyed working in XCode. Who knew using a mouse swipe to go back in your code would be so natural?”

“what I presume is Xcode's local model is nice for a sort of parameterized copy/paste or find/replace though”