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> Xcode's UI is miles better than the IntelliJ suite, or any other IDE I've used, but functionally it's a decade behind them

Their live preview when you're building a swiftui, apart from that I'm not sure what's better in their UI. Managing windows is clunkier, the rest is very standard ide stuff?



It's not that Xcode's UI is great, it's just that the others are so bad. Xcode usually stays away from the unlabeled button mess that IntelliJ IDEs have become and is overall more Mac native. Of course, some of that is that it's lacking the features that drive complexity in other IDEs, so it's entirely possible it would be worse if it was more full featured.


Currently working on both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose. For me, Compose is way ahead and it’s such a joy to work on it.

Also, opening Xcode on my M2 will take an average of 10-15 seconds, what’s up with that.




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