Question for my #swift and #ios dev friends: with AppCode gone, are there any other good alternatives to Xcode? It’s just nuts to me how bad it still is (I’ve been using it since 3.0 so I’ve been around…). While AppCode wasn’t ever great for UI, it was a massive improvement the rest of the time.
I guess you could use an editor that has LSP support but meh… don’t really like VS Code but maybe it’s slightly less bad than Xcode?
@ianthetechie Have you looked at Nova, from Panic? I’ve only ever used Xcode for iOS development but Nova is quite nice and has a really good plugin system.
I have a large-ish mono repo with Rust and C++ code along with the Swift code that I have to manage simultaneously - so, the loss of #AppCode was also a double-whammy on that front.
@adamjcook can JetBrains IDEs use language servers? I’ve got a similar soon-to-be-not-small mono repo that has Rust, Swift, and Kotlin. It’s kinda hilarious that as someone who pays for the All Products Pack happily I have to open a different IDE for all 3. I really want like idk a JetBrains Workspace that can go into CLion-ish mode for Rust, IntelliJ-ish mode for Kotlin, and idk a language server and syntax plugin for Swift. Heck I can run swift build with a shell run config.
@ianthetechie Plugins did - like the Rust extension for CLion... I think.
Yeah... I had to kinda do a CLion-AppCode two-step dance, but there was some Rust/C++ functionality overlap on the AppCode... so, it was not necessary all of the time.
Still, it was nice (or, would have been nice) to work on the codebase with the same brand of IDEs at least.
Indeed. Would have been nice for all of that collapsed into one IDE. Really nice.
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