Xcode 4+

I've been programming for a while, and I've used quite a few of the major IDEs. Xcode is OK, but it has too many bugs and quirks really. Random crashes of the text editor, random blank regions of story boards, random 100% CPU usage from some swift thing or other, random build errors that just go away, random not connecting to an iOS device to run a new build -- those are the problems I see on an almost daily basis.

It's also too big. For a long time, Apple sold laptops with comically small disks. We can't all afford to spend basically every penny we have to get more than 128GB disk space. Anyway, with Xcode and Office installed, I have around 8GB free normally, and that isn't enough to update Xcode -- it seems to need double the size of the app in free disk space to just run an update, and it's a pretty big app... What makes that really, really frustrating is that my iPhone will auto-update, and until I update Xcode I can't run anything because each new iOS version needs an Xcode update..

So there we are, rant over, it's actually an OK IDE for the most part and I do actually enjoy writing software for iOS.

I just spent a couple of hours trying to get the assistant view working. It worked for one view controller but not the second view controller on the same storyboard. This is all because I moved the view controllers into a folder named "Controllers". If I moved the file back out of the folder, the assistant editor works. If I move the file back into that folder, it fails again. I must have tried 10 workaround from other people experiencing the same issue and finally found one which works, but I'm already sick of intrusive bugs like this that I just havent seen in other IDE's over the past 30 years. It's ridiculous, extremely counter produtive, and ongoing with every Xcode release. It ruins the joy of developing for iOS.

OK I have just started working with Xcode and C++ after working with an alternative very expensive product at work, and I think that Xcode knocks the spots off of the competition. It's really fantastic and I am very pleased that this quality product is produced and supported by Apple. The support site is also a gerat place to find additional rescources and obviously developer support. I have looked down below and feel like I'm a little out of line, its difficult to think of an improvement. Yes, my Macbook Pro has been running a little hotter while: coding, debugging, and assembling, so I am looking into how to mittigate this feature. But the softare it’s self is wonderful and has a silky smooth interface and feel, big high five to the Xcode development team. And please keep the C++ support, for me this is the best bit.