{"id":1473,"date":"2007-06-08T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/ides\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T15:07:10","slug":"ides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/ides\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nBrent Simmons<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nI’m a Cocoa programmer, so I use Xcode all the time. Sometimes I wonder if I don’t really like it, or if it’s just like that I don’t like IDEs. Programmers are intelligent people and sophisticated computers users, so you’d think that they would be more productive and happier with a literate interface instead of all this heavyweight point-and-click madness. You’d think they would demand it.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nI don’t like working in Xcode, either, and yet there’s no doubt that Xcode 2.4 is much<\/em> better than previous versions of Xcode, Project Builder, and ProjectBuilder. And, from what I can remember, I mostly like it better than CodeWarrior, Visual Studio, Symantec, and THINK C.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nI don’t really know what to “demand” to make Xcode better. It just doesn’t feel right, and I think Brent is correct that the problem is that it isn’t linguistic enough. So I’ve opted out of it. Rather than use Xcode as an IDE, I use it as a build engine, controlled via make from either BBEdit or Terminal. When I need a debugger, I tend to just fire up gdb by itself. What I’d like from Xcode is more hooks so that external editors can leverage its symbol index and display build errors.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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