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Also did Apple take whoever was

2024-01-15 20:35:02.869511+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Also, did Apple take whoever was responsible for the 2017-2019 MacBook Pros and put them in charge of XCode? Every release seems to get crappier.

I no longer have any mental model for what the assistant editor is supposed to think of as a "Counterpart".

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#Comment Re: Also did Apple take whoever was made: 2024-01-15 22:31:02.946011+01 by: markd [edit history]

Xcode was never good, and it keeps getting worse. This was my today:

scene: markd uses debugger commands for stepping because the buttons are too damn small
markd: n
lldb: I'll step to next line. oh, and I'm putting the keyboard focus on the editor
markd: n
Editor: "ooh! letter. Replace selection with n"
markd: undo. click in debugger. n
lldb: I'll step to next line. oh, and I'm putting the keyboard focus on the editor
markd: click in command-line area. n
lldb: I'll step to next line. oh, and I'm putting the keyboard focus on the editor
markd: click in command-line area. n

#Comment Re: Also did Apple take whoever was made: 2024-01-19 00:37:59.586918+01 by: Dan Lyke

I've been bouncing back and forth between Emacs and XCode today, largely because my Emacs setup isn't tuned for Objective-C, but damn the "to indent a region, hit shift-tab, go get a cup of coffee" thing sure is enlightening. And, yeah, the "open a file, hit Cmd-F, be searching in the assistant editor", yep, that's convenient.

And I swear all of this stuff is dramatically slower than it used to be.

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