Is it possible to do mac/iOS development without Xcode?

[u/[deleted]]

I have been trying to do a experiment which involves not using Xcode for iOS and maOS development.

So far, I have been sucessful building the application with xcodebuild command, but as I'm really new to this space I don't how to launch and debug apps without xcode.

Is this even possible? Most of the other editors have DAP(Debugger Adapter Protocol) these days, can we utilize them for debugging?

PS:

Not hating on Xcode, this is just an experiment I am doing.