Eric Building things Swift in XCode is very enjoyable, so quick to throw things together.
Xasasfdasfd Wow, either they fixed a whole mess of things for Swift, or you're building much tinier things than I worked on in Objective-C, or...something. XCode has been hands-down the worst IDE I've worked with in over a decade.
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Mark Dain What didn't you like about Xcode? It's been alright for me, although has messed up a few times. It's git integration sucks and some of the project details are confusing and buggy, but in general it's alright for me. Better than Android Studio anyway.
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Xasasfdasfd Slow on large projects, multiple crashes, impossibly bad git integration, habit of keeping old build artifacts around without explicit clean, the usual Apple habit of pointlessly moving and renaming things from version to version, horrid database tools (and horrid database library)....the list could go on if I wasn't trying to forget I'd ever worked with it.
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Eric I've come across Objective C while looking for swift related how-tos, it is the most ugly confusing thing I've ever seen. Swift is pretty much typed JS so I really like it. XCode has been really good so far, there's been no moments of bafflement. Everything it does makes sense to me so far. It's not a huge project but it's a fairly intricate thing. Will post details once its finished.
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Mark Dain Dirty secret: I kinda like how Objective-C looks. Although I do write everything in Swift as it's a lot more safe and doesn't require [object retain]; and [object release]; for memory management. Although IIRC, Objective-C doesn't need that either anymore.
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