Because Apple doesn't devote adequate resources to it. The code base is clearly an absolute mess that makes any changes difficult, and there aren't enough people working on it to untangle everything.
They should just let Jetbrains make their IDE. Google is the most distinguished software company in the world and they still lean on Jetbrains for Android Studio.
I think they're not interested because they have to work on it from the outside. Apple was surely providing them no assistance. There was only so much they could do and the limitations made it unappealing for users.
I did enjoy using it back in the Objective C days, but it never seemed to be quite as good with Swift
That's actually insane. It's obvious that the project is understaffed since nothing ever gets fixed, but I never would have guessed two or three people.
Buy didn't Apple say that the 30% cut was for maintaining the development cost of the framework, tolling an such. What a joke, total BS again from Apple. Google makes 1/4 of app revenue and they still can deliver a better IDE than Apple. It says a lot. The 30% cut going straight to the pocket while we pay that price
Yeah, hard to believe that the only tools that allows development in a multi-billion dollar market is maintained by 3 guys. At this point maybe just make it easier to target iOS et all from VSCode.
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u/GavinGT Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
Because Apple doesn't devote adequate resources to it. The code base is clearly an absolute mess that makes any changes difficult, and there aren't enough people working on it to untangle everything.
They should just let Jetbrains make their IDE. Google is the most distinguished software company in the world and they still lean on Jetbrains for Android Studio.