• hdsrob@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Hate both, but I’d run Windows over Mac any day (and I develop in both regularly since I have projects that require Windows and Mac, and will for a long time). But some of this is probably due to having to use the steaming pile of crap that is Xcode.

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          49 minutes ago

          That’s only thing I use the Mac for. Everything else is in Linux or a Windows VM (for Windows desktop apps that can’t be done outside of Visual Studio).

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        4 hours ago

        Then why use Xcode? Mac is essentially BSD under the hood so basically any Linux CLI tool works fine, and GUI applications work reasonably well with XQuartz or whatever it’s called these days.

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          44 minutes ago

          There’s really no other reasonable way to build iOS apps. AppCode was a thing, but was retired a few years ago.

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        3 hours ago

        I work at a full MacBook shop and literally nobody uses xcode 🤷‍♂️ weird reason to be against it

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          33 minutes ago

          It’s really the only viable option for iOS apps.

          To be fair, I pretty much hate everything about the Mac, but Xcode is about the only thing I use it for, and it just gets worse with every release.