I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've only had to use it a couple of times, and never to actually write code. I've had to do something with it in order to install an app, that sort of thing.
So I don't know how it is for coding. But I do know it's really bad for the things I've tried. To be fair, this isn't all xcode's fault. It's that MacOS' UI design is poor.
For example, Spotlight will find xcode but not the iOS simulator, even though they're both on the dock. Installing homebrew needs the xcode cli tools, which requires several gigabyes and an active credit card to install. Tell me how that makes sense.
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I've only had to use it a couple of times, and never to actually write code. I've had to do something with it in order to install an app, that sort of thing.
So I don't know how it is for coding. But I do know it's really bad for the things I've tried. To be fair, this isn't all xcode's fault. It's that MacOS' UI design is poor.
For example, Spotlight will find xcode but not the iOS simulator, even though they're both on the dock. Installing homebrew needs the xcode cli tools, which requires several gigabyes and an active credit card to install. Tell me how that makes sense.