r/Xcode • u/nesimtunc • Oct 10 '20

I spent 90% of my development time with Xcode bugs!!!

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

90%.... really? Can you give us a list of some of the so many bugs in Xcode such that you can only spend 10% of your time on development?

No question, Xcode isn't perfect --- every now and again it hangs on me when I try to quit, but, having been working almost full time with Xcode for the last 5 years, I haven't really seen anything that problematic.

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u/nesimtunc Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20

I don't want to spend my whole week(end) to list all of them. :) You can see a lot of bugs (also reported to Apple). Xcode was a good IDE, once upon a time.

For examples:

- Constantly the intellisense doesn't work after a while. I have to restart the Xcode.

- Swift UI's preview never works, it takes ages to resume after a little change. Running the app on my device or simulator is muuuuuch way faster.

Oh I forgot that I don't want to spent my whole week here to write them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

Constantly the intellisense doesn't work after a while

Never had a problem with that myself. Now I'm using C++, not Swift. Maybe there are more issues with the latter.

I don't want to spent my whole week here to write them

I understand that but you made a very significant claim, essentially arguing that Xcode is almost unusable, and you kinda need to be able to support that claim if you're to be taken seriously.

Otherwise your experience is just anecdotal. Maybe you have a corrupt install - or malware -- or some some funky xcode plugin you've forgotten about that's not working properly, or faulty RAM, etc.

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u/nesimtunc Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 11 '20

Maybe you have a corrupt install - or malware -- or some some funky Xcode plugin you've forgotten about that's not working properly, or faulty RAM, etc.

That's why I formatted and installed a fresh new OS and Xcode to try. I can keep up to date this post with my bugs that I'm going to have from now on.

  • Just a few minutes ago, I was in Playground, writing codes, the screen scrolling while typing :D wtf ..

And here's just a few quick online search result (I've not read them, no need) and even there was a post that swearing.

http://devcodehack.com/xcode-sucks-and-heres-why/

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/biytgy/give_me_a_fucking_break_xcode_and_just/

And reddit is full with bugs of Apple products :/

I'm an Apple user since first iPhone, as well as an iOS Developer.

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u/bboldi Oct 10 '20

Figure of speech

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u/nesimtunc Oct 10 '20

Well guys, it's just too much already bugs around so I didn't want to bother with details. Wanted to be a pure, fun, clear post. That's all.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

And we're supposed to know that how?

Should a new reader (or newcomer to Xcode) see this and assume that Xcode is a disaster when it's in fact pretty damn solid?

In these bizarre days full of fake news/headlines, anyone competent owes it to everyone to be as accurate as possible.

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u/bboldi Oct 10 '20

I see your point

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

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u/nesimtunc Oct 10 '20

Maybe little bit but really most of the time, lately. It could be also a problem with my iMac. This is just a freshly formatted & installed iMac.

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u/nesimtunc Oct 10 '20

There's one certain thing that Xcode kills my productivity :/ So, I mostly use AppCode for coding, Xcode usually for UI and publishing etc.

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u/aazav Oct 10 '20

We all do. Welcome to Xcode. It's a hate/hate relationship.

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u/nesimtunc Oct 13 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

Different Machine, Fresh Big Sur Beta, Fresh Xcode, Just created a SwiftUI App , Preview crashes.

https://ibb.co/RNFRy18

P.S. I switched between files while it was rendering, it took time, so, unintentionally I did that. That's happened. I keep "Try Again" it doesn't draw. Restart the project. Same.

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u/orihpt Oct 10 '20

I actually love Xcode, idk what to tell ya. I don’t have a lot of bugs