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Thanks for this rant. I'm in an Xhole now. It helps. Thanks.

Hello

I think so

It's 2022 now and Xcode is still suffocating every time I have to use it.

XCode and Apple are "funny". I hadn't another choice: I installed XCode 13.3 to run the code on iPhone device, and XCode 13.1 to archive the build. Archive feature doesn't work with XCode 13.3, and XCode 13.1 doesn't run the project on devices... LOL. It's just an absolutely disaster.

Xcode13 here now, still sucks as it used to be, as it has been. Fucking can't even compile on large projects, just hangs on Planning Build xx/xxx. Fuck! Restart,build,hang,Fuck! Infinite loop! And it's fucking slow,laggy, View Debug buggy and sucks. WTF has xcode team been doing, do u ppl don't use xcode to write ur apps??? Other teams inside apple never complain????? These idiots should be put an apple inside their asshole, forbidden to take out until xcode is fucking fixed. or better replaced with a reasonable fast and good-to-use IDE! All in all FUCK U xcode team!

xCode 12 is utter laggy crap. Apple can fuck themselves up.

why 'x'code is sucks? 1) they must swift off showing all useless warnings on the left panel. 2) don't change the window panel focus automatically while I'm working, you fuckers of focus. 3) macOS's finder can switch tabs by pressing control+tab/shift control+tab, but 'x'code cannot. are they products of one company? what the fuck are you doing apple? how are you able to do a great job without keeping consistency of your own products line? 4) please kick xcode team members's asses whenever one bug is discovered. 5) file drag & drop to xcode window must open the file, you idiot! 6) all ui of xcode like font size, icon size and etc must be able to scale, you fucking idiot! why? because apple, you're selling products of very high resolution, don't you? consistency! consistency! phew, tons of fucking idiots even in apple. 7) what the fuck with the compile speed, debug information retrieving speed, ... make faster more faster! move faster! fucking stoneheads.

xcode development team is totally a bundle of losers. they might be the most naive team in apple. they have no ux/ui concept, no project management concept, no architecture, and no philosophy. the xcode is completely below the basic level. ms visual studio 25 years ago is much better and performative than 'x'code in 2021. now? who is using 'x'code for the editor? absolutely they must have a sense of inferiority against ms vscode team. i don't get why apple is wasting tons of money for the team. it would be better to buy some foods with the money for geese around apple's headquarter and feeding.

does anybody know how to make images load? I used the UIImageView thing but it just doesn't load. It says there are problems and I've tried multiple things. I don't know if it's because I'm new or... yeah. If you know how to help please tell me- it's really annoying and it keeps overheating my mac when it's a small project D:

It is sooo fuckking awful. Just absolutely terrible. It's so bad. It's just so bad. Why. Why do iOS developers put up with this bullshit. For fuck's sake. What in the fuck. Just fuck. Fuckin fuck. Unreal.

This was posted so long ago, and Apple.. Apple never changes. Today I was busy doing my hustle side project. I had over 30 crashes while coding SwiftUI app. I'm really tired of this shit. This is my last Xcode project. I promise. I had enough of this shit. In my daily job I am Visual Studio user. I can left my PC turned on for a week, return and VS is still working stable. I forgot when I had any problems with VS. Apple software is worst shit on planet Earth.

Have just had to go back and grapple with Xcode after a decent break swearing at Android Studio. Yup, Xcode is still the most rubbish IDE I have had to use. The others include Netbeans, Idea, Eclipse, VSCode, VS and others (Yup I have an eclectic working life). Xcode is still the shittiest... by far.

Has anyone mentioned yet that the Xcode download is some freaking 12 GIGABYTES (!!!)? That's an IDE, MIND YOU? NOT A 4K MOVIE! WTF?

I've found my tribe. I can remember using Eclipse to start developing Android apps back in 2008. That was a nightmare that only got slightly better with the introduction of Android Studio in 2013. When JetBrains dropped AppCode some years after that I tried it out. Xcode remains the reason why I can't take developing iOS apps seriously. It's too restrictive and often just lacks quality of life things that would make it a worthwhile investment to learn.

And don't get me started on the fact that I have to download 1 million gigabytes of data just to upgrade to a new fuckin version. Jesus fuckin Christ Apple!!!

Once again I am searching for this kind of post, just to find someone that can sympathies with my frustration. Whoever defend for xcode and think it is decent, honestly really good for you man. Sometimes I thought maybe I am just dumb and lazy? But as a fresh graduated programmer, compare first time between using Android Studio vs Xcode, unity or any other platform, Xcode is just the worst nightmare I could imagine I will ever deal with.

2020 Xcode sucks more than ever before. It still can't even sort its project structure alphabetically. And if you do manually (arrgh) then it will lead to lots of merge conflicts in a large project. so we're stuck forever with a chaotic project structure!

I don't understand why the hell XCode is so low quality, i'm and Android developer and i thought that Android studio have annoying things but after working with XCode for month i came to conclusion, Android studio is pretty good one, XCode for some reason just can stop autocomplete suggestions or start yeling about unresolved objects for no reason and only restatrt XCode or reinstall pods will help, please apple team help us

This post is 8 years old. Xcode is 12 years old. Xcode still stinks.

Still sucks and from a test perspective functionality half way works, then is broken next minor update, then is kind of fixed with a workaround and then broken again in following update. I hate this IDE and I have a new found hate for Apple products.

8 years later... it still sucks

JetBrains' AppCode is leagues ahead of xcode already and the only shit thing about it are xcode tools underneath. Apple is like a dictatorship, JetBrains is like a democracy. Fuck you Apple....

Still fucking sucks. It's impossible to code collaboratively with the .pbxproj file. Constantly dealing with merge conflicts, references/configs getting orphaned and nuked accidentally, crashes while switching between Git branches. We're on Xcode 11.2, but this fucking IDE has always sucked and will always suck until they rebuild the configuration engine.

Xcode is a total piece a shit. It takes more than 20 minutes to "lunch..." and it take for ever even in playground to run one line of code! I mean one line!!

I have no issues with AppCode :) Little bumpy on version changes, but Jetbrains are quick to fix it.

Haha! Yes!! Every other time I run, it crashes on the way to the phone. And stackviews are making me about want to quit iOS with the sheer bugginess it seems to bring along.

Worst XCode9 why apple becomes this much of lazy appearnce to degrade there own product i dont know i am fan of apple products based on that interst i am using xcode but after ios11 and xcode 9 it becomes worst prodcuts of Decade. Mind it APPLE worst service.

I love Apple, but I have to recognize that I update to xcode 9 is a nightmare. Crash all the time, I can even add an image, all time the beachball in my screen. Honestly with xcode 8 doesn´t happend nothing like that. Best regards

Hi. Im a fulltime iOS/Android developer working al day with mobile. Im having none of these issues with Xcode, granted xcode 9 is stupid slow when working with storyboard, but it almost never crash, the Sim never hangs or locks. I have worked with Eclipse for a long time and must say that its deffently the worse IDE i have ever used. Android Studio was bad in the beginning but its almost as good as Xcode now. Nothing beats Visual Studio thats the perfect ide :D

Xcode 9 is the biggest piece of shit of i have ever seen. Crashes at least 5 times a day... Sometimes requiring a complete computer reboot!!

I'm happy to have found a page of people who understand my frustrations... I got here by Googling "Interface Builder is hot garbage". You and everyone in the comments have made me feel much less alone in my struggles, thank you.

xCode 9 Wahahahha shittiest IDE i have ever had

Visual Studio and VS Code rules in development IDEs. Apple needs to take note. XCode really sucks. Apple is really luck they own the mobile market. If not, I would't develop shit on their platform.

You remembered me why i left the iOS/Apple ecosystem alltogether (and other 1000 reasons more), i admit, it was fun ... sometimes ...

Just the way they manage views and tabs is a mess. No other IDE does it that way, there has to be a reason... but no they had to do it the "Apple way". Fucking morons

Googling "xcode sucks". No wonder why I am here.

Yeah Fucking shiiity

Sorry, but I just have to vent. Xcode 8.2 is absolute crap. Anyone who claims otherwise must either be crazy or has never used another IDE for more than an hour. Auto Layout and constraints are a joke. With Xcode designing a UI is not science its Black Magic. Need to add another view to an already finished View Controller - forget it. Linking IBOutlet and IBAction to the VC is such a joke. Don't forget the click/hold down control/drag in opposite directions -- that makes sense! Obj-C is just [[NSData alloc] BundleOfBullShit: ThatJustKeepGettingThingsAdd [ButNotFixed]]. Swift gets changed every four months so that Swift 1.0/2.0/2.2/2.3 looks completely different from Swift 3.0/3.1. Java and C# have changed in the past too, but at least my code still compiles - every time! I've coded in C++, C#, Java, PHP, Pascal, Fortran even the completely superfluous VB and VB.Net. All have cleaner syntax and are more accessible than either Obj-C or Swift. Apple must truly hate developer!

Apple sucks donkey balls! Why can't I command click to a function definition! Are they bloody retarded? SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW! SO ANGRY. Ohh and yes totally agree with you!

I CANNOT AGREE MORE! And after every XCode update, I need considerable amount of time to get my code to start working again! FML

Your Crapintosh needs help ASAP

I ?? Xcode

Xcode 8 is by far the easiest and most functional IDE that i have yet had the pleasure to use, i don't know wheeeeeere the hell you get your delusions from XD

More people should read all these comments to realize just how bad Xcode can be. Visual Studio has its faults, but it is infinitely better than Xcode.

You are fucking right

Maybe you've never worked with any other IDE, I've worked with many versions Visual Studio, it's terrible, Eclipse IDE is not too bad but it's not great, NetBeans is horrible, Android Studio and the simulator is slow as hell. XCode is pretty decent, I never had lags on XCode and I use it everyday, if connecting IBOutlets is complicated for you I don't know what to think... maybe you have to learn to use it first and then make a better review...

I see only crying babies here. Which is funny as hell!! xDDD

Source version support of Xcode is terrible. When open s XIB file updates some unnecessary numbers and it creates altered file even though nothing is changed in the file. Also it crashes and freezes.

Creating apps using autoLayout and swift requires less code and makes iOS development easier compared to Android, but Xcode strip it all away, Xcode is like a toy car, and Android Studio feels like formula 1.

Thank god I'm not alone, wasn't sure if I was just 'doing it wrong'. Xcode 50 will get code folding and people will applaud in WWDC 2030. Let's just hope web app IDE's get upto VS level before that!

I drank the kool aid! And now I suffer. Xcode was working OK for the whole dev cycle. Then.. just as I change one simple background image into a half screen image... xcode suddenly can't figure out how to display the damn UI. So... forget about WYSIWIG. It's all messed up. I want to go back to code only, but that would be too hard now -- even with git. Why did I switch? Those damn WWDC videos making Auto layout & storyboards just seem to work great. Also lots of idiots out there saying that the shit works now. THE SHIT DOES NOT WORK. DO NOT USE STORYBOARDS. LAY IT OUT IN CODE! USE PURELAYOUT INSTEAD OF APPLE's CODE.

It's so complicated and the instructions are a giant wall of even more complicated. I just can't seem to actually ever figure out or know what I should do next to do basically anything. I already know a lot of C/C++ and tons of other languages that you just create with an editor in a directory and use make or automake to build the crap. Find the header files, the libs and just build the -I and -l dirs into the $(CC) line, or the $INCLUDE env var and type "make". I know I'm a dinosaur, but even adding a stupid library is nearly impossible to just do without a giant time investment. I don't know how you all learned this. /bow

Xcode has gotten a lot worse over the years (v 7.3). If you use swift you get random errors, like crashes when using generics. Xcode crashes from time to time, as iOS-developer, you just have to get used to it. Autolayout, well, don't even get me started. Clicking a xib file to open it will automatically change the xml code (adding random stuff like missplaced=true or just changing ids). Our code is full of workarounds. Without doubt, one of the worst SDK/IDEs I have ever had the "pleasure" working on. Sometimes, at nights, when I remember I am an iOS developer, I have to cry myself to sleep :´(

Xcode has gotten a lot better over the years (v 7.2) and you need a powerful mac to run Xcode. Its not a software, but a bunch on software , simulator, complier, debugging tools in one package, Its needs a powerful machine to run on

Wish they didn't force it upon developers and instead offered a compiler for more platforms than OS X

AutoLayout with two simple buttons aligned botton makes me crazy.

Each time i compile a new package of the same application, each time i have to regenerate provisionning profiles, certificates and some shit like that. Seriously, i spend most of my time repairing that dumb shit than building apps. Go to hell apple.

Don't forget about UIView alignments. It's a metric ton of dumb crap you have to walk through just to get 5 views to align. WTF, Apple? Android and Windows programming is for the big boys. Even with Swift iOS is lacking major functionality the others give. It's just dumb that this stuff is overlooked. For example, why no Visibility state of collapsed, instead a Bool property for hidden? That's dumb. Now I have to dynamically alter constraints or change the frame of a view to get a vertical collapse effect? In Swift 2, no generic interfaces? That really crashes any type of SOLID principle developments. No pure virtual either? WTF? I have to create abstract methods that are only abstract because of a preconditionFailure or assertionFailure? iOS is so lacking when it comes to OOP features, the code will have low cohesion and high coupling. You can't get around it. And what about their half-assed attempt at MVC? IBOutlets from the storyboard to the controller or view, that's just an additional step I don't need. Why do I even have to go the attributes menu that always crashes Xcode to link a controller to a storyboard controller? Why in the good name of all of programming do I have to do that step backwards to link from a custom UIView to the storyboard!?! At best it's a juvenile when compared to the adults in the neighborhood.

This kind of software have a name bloatware! Xcode (I'm with 7th inflation) is so fill with useless features that you have work hard to find useful ones in that junk pile! It's a big ever changing mess. And you have to waste hours to relearn how doing your work at each new inflation of the bloatware. Codewarior I miss you!

It is a stinking pile of ***. Together with Apple's obsession for certificates and profiles the whole development experience sucks.

Please don't expand new issues automatically. Please don't expand it! I have to scroll it all day long to see an some error. Oh..it's terrible.

XCode have lots of bugs. One of the example is ERRORS.. Missing ; when you are not missing anything. Logic Error. It compiles tho, but annoying..

I am a loaf of cheese. Being cheese my biggest difficulty is typing with the right pressure so as not crumble or squish on the keyboard. Xcode seems to serve me pretty well though.

Dude was right on about Xcode 4.3. You have to admit there's been a lot of progress on Xcode.

I have been using Xcode 7 heavily and it never crashed on my new macbook. I love this IDE, it is working like a clock, very stable. I suppose it really depends on your personality and/or your macbook whether you like this IDE or not. In my view, Xcode 7 is very powerful and great IDE, but one needs to get used to it.

I have to agree 100% To add to the crazines. I just realized Xcode 7 was updated 3 times in almost 30 days 7.0 Sep 16 7.0.1 Sep 28 7.1 Oct 21

STFU XCODE IS BEAAST

"Connecting UI elements to their IBOutlet is the most annoying thing I have ever done in an IDE", I guess there was no autolayout yet.

I am using XCode 6.1.1 and it still crashes quite often. Never thought an IDE can be so terrible but XCode successfully proved that I was wrong.

Yes, Its sucks. Stupid compiling code, building, suggestions.

I've just spent two hours trying to resolve an issue where Android Studio is stuck scanning files to index when I'm trying to launch an app... so... yeah

okay, I've been using Xcode now for over five years. I work as an iOS developer, and also develop android apps. I nearly NEVER experienced any of the problems mentioned in this article, except it was an Xcode beta. I really hate eclipse, netbeans, visual studio, IntelliJ etc. I love Xcode and I can't even remember when it crashed the last time xD But the opinions can differ, that's just mine

I agree on some of these points but I have to say being an Android developer and now staring ios in the past week, I have managed to build 75% of my android app in the first week of learning and googling how swift and xcode work. Apple does things very differently and the ide seems a bit like a toy but I have to say I a bit shocked how productive I was in the past week. No matter how good android studio or eclipse might be, figuring out how to properly build an Adapter for a listview in Android was absolute hell. Not to mention having to use 3rd party libraries (picasso etc) just to load images etc. So even though the ide does kind of suck the system as a whole ends up being fairly productive. Running x-code 6.3 on a mac mini.

XCode sucks! Its ridiculous!

xcode is suitable for iOS development and nothing more.

Please tell me I'm currently downloading Xcode and Ive looked it before I'm a beginner coder is this a good start? Also I've heard those this mess up my mac? PLEASE RESPOND

Maybe I'm judging too soon.. but: in Android you define all the UI ("activities") with very nice XML files. In Xcode you are dragging things all the time. Can't I use XML?! I know the answer is probably: yes. But are these XML as nice as android activity XMLs?

What are you talking about?.. go home

I have been programming for 3+ years now, and I have never seen such a terrible IDE. I have used Eclipse, BlueJ, Visual Studio, Mono develop, and XCode. Xcode is by far the worst IDE I have ever had to use in my life. In order for me to publish my application into the app store I have to use apple's proprietary software. I thought it would be a cake walk but I was so wrong. I will list my experience with xcode... 1. Xcode has crashed more than twice in the week period I tried to get my app to build (it still doesn't work). 2. Xcode has a knack for deleting what its trying to import. I really don't know why it does that but I found the folder I imported completely empty after I imported it 3. It wouldn't import a folder because it couldn't find a README.txt file within it. 4. No matter what, it throws a Apple Mach-O Linker error referencing a file I can't find documentation of anywhere. 5. It has corrupted my files more than once (yes, I have a brand new mac that is virus free). 6. Every time I build a project I will have the linker error, but sometimes when I don't change any settings but spam the build project button in frustration I will gain an additional 67 errors. 7. I had to reinstall Xcode at one point in time due to a fatal crash that deleted some of its own files while trying to build a project. You apple fan boys can stick with your little hot wheels car type of software while the professionals ride in our Ford Mustangs with the superior android and windows developer tools.

I agree. Actually, there are more reasons. Probably, because of their ego, none of their developers, ever opened IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio nor Android Studio. Because of their ego, they have never really looked at Java to study why it is so great and powerful. Unbelievable that they are actually proud of being worst. addTarget(self, action: "myMethodAsAString?? really?", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside); Apple is going down.

total bullshit , stop coding for OS , that is not your thing .

Apple needs to fire entire Xcode development team. It is a piece of shit. Unfortunately, I have to use it because of iPhone popularity.

In the 3rd last line I meant to say: "It does NOT crash" Thanks.

I use Visual Studo, it cost about $ 800.00 and does work great. Xcode not as good but, its free. I seen it crash and there should be nothing I can do to make it crash. For me, in the apple world that's all I got to work with, is XCODE. I have installed Version 6.1.1 (6A2008a). I have used XCODE to write software to scan meta data files and play, select and copy to selected folders. This software worked great up until OSX 9.0 and now when scanning files to place in the library the pasifier panel sometimes stop updating, its still there and if I select the buttons then will work, but just will not update. It does crash. The version I build using XCODE 4 does the same thing. It seem to be problem introduced in MAVERICKS. Any ideas.

IMO: Visual Studio > Xcode > Android Studio > Eclipse I can live with Xcode, but in 6 series I have several problems with its git handling. It was far better before, now crashes at least once a working day, git reset is needed, forever looking for working instances processes etc.

i dont wanna say more, simply hate have to work with Xcode.

I fully agree with the writer of this article. I have encountered all the issues the author mentions here and a few more. Been using Project Builder and than Xcode since the days of NeXT, in 1994. Sorry to apple fanboys, Xcode sucks, compared to say Eclipse.

https://twitter.com/suxcode

The code samples posted and the insight into how you go about setting up your project hierarchy, file system, controllers, conditional logic, etc. leads me to believe that you are not a very seasoned iOS developer. The fact you name a UIImage instance 'theImg' and are using 'respondsToSelector' tells me that you are no stranger to 100+ line controller methods riddled with business logic. Spaghetti code is something that you deal with daily. Auto-Layout and storyboards are both straight-forward and easy to use if you actually know what you are doing. I am guessing that you are of the type that likes to think your job is done after selecting "Use Autolayout". It makes sense that you have worked as an engineering manager at companies that released web application as iOS apps. I think your bitterness stems from the fact that Xcode does not contain a template for HTML5.

I am currently trying to solve an issue where Xcode just uses up 5 GB of memory within a minutes and the crashes. After many failed attempts to fix the problem, i thought that upgrading Xcode 5 to 6 would do the trick. But it didn't. Gone are the times where increasing the major number in a version number indicated new software built from the ground. Instead, all it did as far i've seen was replacing the little icons in the project navigator with new, shittier ones. What a great piece of software. I can't wait for Xcode 7 to bring some more worthless UI changes that nobody cares about.

And "Archive" !? WTF happened to Release build ? Now I have NO idea where my files end up. Monumentally stupid!

Xcode is crappy piece of software. Productivity factor is close to zero. I just love the compilation issue window where everything you want to see scrolls away when you try to look at it. And all the total non-intuitiveness! And with every new version, they manage to make it even worse.

wow, Xcode rules man!

Have you ever thought about cleaning up your system or do a clean install? Might solve a lot of issues. Xcode and interface builder are based on MVC that means you keep strictly code and interface objects separated. I am a experienced Delphi programmer and also thought XCode all sucked. But the problem really was the way of thinking how things worked. Making assumptions based on my experience (especially when you used to programming an interface dynamic). But its all about how things work not how other environments does work. System crashes can happen when u violate reference calls but thats also with Visual Studio, Delphi ... lets say any program language. Even if a language say it uses ARC always watch out for memory management.

And THIS is what happens when you replace seasoned, experienced programmers used to working in low-level languages with hipsters wearing skinny jeans and clutching lattes, blathering on about 'hacking' (hint: that word doesn't mean what you think it means), continuous integration (of shitty code), 'just-in-time' programming and all those other paradigms which are simply excuses for failing to care about the design, quality or scalability of the code you're writing. The poor quality of XCode is proof that this disease has reached the level of programmers responsible for creating new languages and frameworks. I shudder to think of what the Internet will look like in 20 years time. Probably one, massive, broken Facebook LIKE button.

I agree. I have been a developer in these kind of environments for over 20 years. My favourite was the Borland suite. You never had to drag all these bits together to make things work. Best of all you did not need to write a heck of a lot of code to achieve basic results. I have now coded a whole day and could have achieved the same in seconds in Borland. Unfortunately this company is no longer around. I think Apple should take a hard look at how Borland did things. I feel like I have gone back a hundred years. It is no wonder that iPad apps lack so much functionality. I think the developers are exhausted. A table view or picker view should only take seconds.

You missed a lot of stuff here, but the main points are there. Also the fact that the latest (and "greatest") still has these problems shows that Apple doesn't care. I'd add one huge thing: the debugger is a joke. Got a variable for e.g. UILabel? Move mouse on top of it, you may get a dropdown. Which includes other dropdowns. Which never show all the properties anyway. So you need NSLog()s beforehand. So handy. You have a global variable? (Yes, they are sometimes needed) Debugger knows nothing about it. You have a variable definition two rows before breakpoint, then you set the value, then break. Xcode might say "variable out of scope" even though it has just been declared, initialized and it's also used after that point. In debug compilation. I could go on, but it's pointless. I know I'm spoiled by Visual Studio. It's not perfect, but it has had great debugging capabilities already in the 90s. Latest Xcode isn't even at the same level as VS 6.0. And the crashes, losing connection to simulator/device, etc... Oh, right. How about the fact that if you get a crash log from a user with, say, iPhone 5S with iOS 7.0.6 and all you have is iPhone 5 with iOS 7.0.6, you can't download symbols for the 5S to see where the code went! Or even if you have 5S with 7.1.0, you don't know where the 5S with 7.0.6 went. So Apple wants you to buy every single device, connect it to all your development machines with every single iOS version if you want to have the symbol files. So I'd really like to meet the guys who never have problems with Xcode and it never crashes etc. Because I really can't believe it. Oh, and I have to mention Interface Builder. It's such crap. And a CPU hog. Open a storyboard with 20 view controllers for the tenth time today, it still hogs one core of the CPU for a couple of minutes doing "something." Or the fact that you can't simply embed controls in another view. Yes, there is an option for that, but it loses all constraints etc. Or if you cut/paste, it might remove the view where you wanted to paste. Or if it doesn't, it surely won't paste them into the same position they were in the previous parent, it'll paste them where the mouse is! So you'll do the whole layout again. Editing XML would be simpler...

This is what happens when everybody gets to write a blog!

Actually I don't agree with most of what has been written above. I've been using Xcode since the very first public release and I use it on more than 300 days a year on projects with plenty of sub-projects (some have sub-projects as well), thousands of source files each, ten thousands of resources and probably a million of code lines. Once you deal with projects of that size and complexity, it's no problem to crash Visual Studio or Eclipse (well, actually Eclipse rarely ever crashes for real, it throws a huge pile of exception at you and leaves the whole app in a limbo state between operating and crashed). But the point I cannot understand at all is number (2). Xcode does not store files at all in the project, Xcode stores references to files in the pbxproj file and we never have our files in a flat hierarchy. And of course you can copy files from Finder to your Xcode project, just drag it from a Finder window to your Xcode project where you want the files to be. Xcode will then ask you if the if the files shall be really copied there or just referenced and stay where they are. Xcode groups (the yellow folder icons) can be just virtual groups (files are in the same directory, but displayed in different groups in Xcode) or they can be real directories (the group is backed up by a directory) in that case moving a file between the groups moves it also between the directories on disk that are backing up the groups. Also you can add directories either as groups (yellow folders) or as "folder reference" (blue folder). The difference is, if you place a new file into a referenced folder, it appears automatically in the Xcode project (it will only appear in groups, if you manually add it to the Xcode project, otherwise this is an unused file for Xcode).

Xode isn't bad at all, and I have never and I mean never had it crash on me one single time. Gotta be another one of those foreign fucks that thinks writing "hello, World" is actual programming. Your a moron.

i expect nearly all of this has been fixed by now???

Ever play with QtCreator? Want an event handler? Get ready to do some typing First create a handler in your .h file in the public slots: section. Next write your handler code. Then somewhere in your code once your UI has been created connect the item "connect(widget.exitButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(close()));" Unless, of course, you're handling a special signal like "mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *e)" which you must know about by conjuring up the spirits on google. ;)

Xcode actually has some nice features, like "Edit All in Scope", and code navigation is getting better, but it is still lightyears behind VS. Debugger sometimes breaks at the wrong line, going "back" is missing, because those little things the product just feels not finished! What about attention to the detail in other Apple products? Looks like the company is turning their back on the developers!

Im in University on my first year of a audio and music tech course and must say I find coding and Xcode so painful, my reason for doing the course was to create music electronically, is coding worth the hassle to learn for what I want to get from this course ???

get lost :p

Visual Studio is probably the best, but it has been around a great deal longer. I've developed on VS since pre-2010 version, Xcode since 3, and its actually very good considering its relatively new. The StoryBoards are an excellent tool in Xcode, and once you get good at it you can become very proficient. I don't have any crashes, but I do have a large amount of memory, and I keep my development machines free of stupid crap and shareware, and garbage utilities that often are the cause of crashes. But if you want to try a real piece of garbage IDE use one of 800 Eclipse version or any Google sponsored IDE's like the horror show know as Android Studio! Crashes, ADP disconnects, HORRIBLE.. all the time!

If you want to see an IDE that does GUI tooling correctly, Visual Studio is your guy.

I'm using XCODE 5.0 and it didn't get all that much better since your posting. XCODE is the worst IDE I've had the misfortune of working on....and that's not just because I come from a VS background. It's a damn IDE, there should be absolutely nothing I can do from within the code to crash it. Ever. They need to scrap it and start over, and perhaps be forced to use their own tools once in a while because it is clear that they don't. It amazes me how apple can design physical devices and UI so elegantly that my 18 month of daughter knew how to use an iphone within an hour of getting her hands on it. But the development tool to build the apps that run on the platform is complete garbage.

I agree with a lot of the article. Today, I had Xcode crash and take my project files with it. I was able to spend about the 15 minutes to recreate them, but the last 2 hours of productivity traking down a hard-to-reproduce bug are lost - I have to start over. There is no excuse for the garbage that Xcode is. Even eclipse is better, which I'd never though I'd say, because eclipse is very difficult to actually get real work done with. I've used VS. VS has some problems, but in terms of stability of the environment, and stability of the debuger, nothing else is even in the same league.

I can only agree with you!! XCode really sux!! I've used hours on fucking drag+drop shit from storyboard to header-file. WTF have to restart xcode, to make it work! Why the fuck can I just code in VI, it's a far better editor anyway. And I mean VI not VIM!

"Are they f*&king smoking a pound of crack over there?" Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think it was LSD. ;-)

I have used both, MSStudio/.NET and XCode/ObjectiveC which are both great in their ways. And have their glitches. Now, I use both for the same c++ project (c++ not being the main target language of either of both), and here is why I greatly prefer XCode: # Handling is much more fluent with large projects (Opening solution, jump-to-definition, starting a debug session, etc). As an example, MSStudio's jump-to-def is not usable at all with my solution (200 projects/ >1M codelines) since it's forever "Scanning Gazillions of additional #includes" *in the foreground*, while I'm blocked from working. # Better source control integration. Look at diffs, blames, logs, and bowse versions virtually as you type your code. This is built-in, no additional tool required. # You can run multiple compile/debug sessions at the same time. Also, while you have an old debug session running you can still start to recompile. # Comes with a full-featured profiler. Look at percentages of CPU time spent in each code line / asm instruction. # I use a lot of stdout logging. Console output of every debug session of the day is saved, so if you like to doublecheck the output of a previous build, just look it up (plus you get the console output in a real unlimited-size text window, not in the sh*tty DOS box). # I can configure the editor for hit-tab-to-auto-indent (emacs style) auto identation Of course this is my personal view, but not having these features makes my work slow and annoying on "MSStudio days".

XCode 5 is much improved in many ways, but it still has a way of throwing a wrench into my workflow and causing me to waste time fixing stupid, trivial things that the IDE should figure out for me. This morning it refuses to find a .h file from a framework, unless said file was placed at the root level in the organizer...but I thought everything is a flat file, anyway? Hmmm...interesting. I began my programming career doing iOS and didn't realize how lousy XCode was until I got into .NET and Visual Studio. I can't stand Windows, but MS developer tools are so much more evolved and usable. AppCode is a far smarter IDE that can find and automatically fix problems that XCode would never even find. The problem is, I don't care for the interface...and you're still stuck using XCode at least part of the time because of Apple's walled garden. Also, how about a dark color scheme? I hate starting at white screen elements all day. It's hard on the eyes. Sure, I can make my code editor dark, but everything else is still white. Visual Studio and AppCode both have dark themes. I'm sure Eclipse does, too. Logic Pro has it. Why not XCode? This one little tweak would make me immensely happy.

I have to say I'm with you. Xcode 5 is really buggy. The auto-layout is undependable, lots of storyboard errors, the fix tool for constraints in the editor doesn't work much of the time. The issue navigator isn't always that much help when dealing with storyboard issues. I get lots of phantom error messages when more than one view uses the same pic file. Hours of wasted time doing things that took no time at all in Xcode 4. Hoping Apple issues some fixes soon.

Well, I just loaded in Xcode 5. I mainly wanted to see if they fixed auto layout. After my 10 hours using it, it does seem much better. Autolayout seems to make sense to me now. All In all it seems pretty good.

}}} Lol its not a toy for kids. You need to grow up and gain some experience to handle such classic development tools. I am right now feeling so proud that I handle this IDE so flawlessly and never face these problem. Don't get annoyed kid, you play eclipse and let big guys handle big things;) Dude, I've been coding for decades. I've chased down stack overflow bugs in someone else's BINARY libs using Turbo Debugger. I've been playing with Visual Studio and with Xcode (yes, on a hackintosh). I can tell you flat out that Visual Studio has its shortcomings, but Xcode is an annoying POS that doesn't even have a straightforward mechanism for deleting old projects. I've got a markedly trivial "noob" application that nothing manages to get rid of the references to, none of the suggested solutions on the internet work, that sucker is buried in there to STAY and it's a freaking zombie. Apparently, I'll never ever get to use that project name ever again. Yeesh. Xcode is hiding the info buried deep in its own innards such that you have to be a multi-year specialist to even get near it. This is ridiculous. I can go find the folders that VS keeps and delete them and that will get rid of all reference to the project's existence, as long as I didn't enable source code tracking. Not so for Xcode, which has its own magical giant ball o' goo system buried away and totally inaccessible from the user which ignores "Clean", ignores Any efforts to "remove references", ignores deletion from the menus, EVERYTHING. A simple-assed, OBVIOUS process like deleting a project permanently, and it's not just simple and straightforward. THAT is an "immature" product. Because deleting something should not be a complex process for the user. And given how old XCode is, it's got no excuse whatsoever for being "immature". I hate Microsoft, but, frankly, Apple is making me appreciate them. >:-/

I bet you run a cheap ass Hackint0sh. XCode connects to the emulator 100% of the time and crashes maybe once a week during a 50h work week.

Yea you obviously aren't really using Xcode right or very often. I used to dislike Xcode when I didn't know how to use it. Now that I am very experienced with it I hate using anything else.

SDK changes are common on every platform and have nothing to do with xcode. I have seen android developers struggle to build their own UIScrollview-alike controls because their SDK didn't even have one out of the box:-D Just go back to Eclipse and stop whining.

What to do? Throw all apple toys and get to REAL programming - on PC.

Lol its not a toy for kids. You need to grow up and gain some experience to handle such classic development tools. I am right now feeling so proud that I handle this IDE so flawlessly and never face these problem. Don't get annoyed kid, you play eclipse and let big guys handle big things;)

Somewhere between Eclipse's insistence that everything in your directory tree needs to be compiled into the project and XCode's flat project structure that is pseudo-organized into groups is a happy medium. And what do you know, we find that again in Visual Studio in 1998. It followed your directory structure but didn't insist on trying to build everything it found there into your project.

What's ironic is Visual C++ 6.0 created the code for its user interface objects, and that was in 1998. I've been working with Interface builder for iOS since it was introduced and it STILL doesn't do what we were doing in Windows CE in 1998.

xcode really sucks, regardless what IDE I ever uses, xcode now has 100% posibility drains CPU cycles when I uses built-in git commit function,(xcode 4.6.3) I think Apple should open xcode's source code, use the power of community to fix all xcode's bugs, as a developing environment of Mac OSX, xcode's score is under 60, now I use jetBrains IDE, it's a little like eclipse, yes, it is very slow, but it is stable.

I do not like Xcode. Visual Studio being able to double click your components and then write your code to it is INTUITIVE. Wiring an interface together in Xcode is the most ass-backwards thing I've seen yet. Objective C is a convoluted pool of what-fuck-is-going-on that I've coded in thus far. I use Xcode because I have to, not because I want to. I prefer using a Mac over Windows by leaps and bounds which is the only reason why I tolerate it.

Too stupid to use this IDE ?

This IDE stinks. Eclipse is a shit. Free developers tools are a real nightmare. Never works. And no one is the culprit

Flash Code - you're a fucking racket and you suck - eat shit!!!

Creating native and HTML5 apps is no longer a problem. Due to user friendly and flexible online app building platforms it is really easy to get an app in the Appstore and Google Play even if you have no programming skills. Among the services I used myself I would recommend Snappii as their opportunities in mobile app development seem to be endless and can suit any business needs.

It makes me die a little inside every time I use this IDE.

I disagree SOOOOO much with you that it's not worth even arguing. Just buy yourself an Android Phone, a Windows 8 computer and you'll be back to XCode in 5 minutes aprox. Not longer. I absolutely LOVE XCode, with all it's flaws.

Agree - and so much more. I can't believe I'm forced to use a Mac to write code for iPad - it's 2013!!

What da fuck is this shit I just read?

Finally, while eclipse used to have significant issues around the use of plugins, these issues - at least in the core java, java 2EE space seem pretty much resolved. Some of the features available in Eclipse would make very useful additions to XCode (see below).

Another salient and important difference is around file handling. 'Groups' and 'folders' (yellow and blue folders in Xcode) - interesting notion but I think it's just simpler (and hence) better to just have files/folders in the IDE match those on the file system. File references are complicated and can lead to weird errors which are time consuming to track down. The amount of 'memory' saved is irrelevant hence the feature benefit is totally outweighed by the feature cost.

Eclipse has some nice features - like listing class methods in a separate window - so one doesn't have to scroll endlessly to find any given method in the main panel. it also has the ability to quickly show class hierarchies - very handy. are either of those two (basic) features available somewhere in XCode?

in my opinion, it's the integrated interface builder that sucks. never never never look at a .xib file in xcode 4.x. even scrolling over one will trigger the memory weasel. dont upgrade. keep old versions for sanity sakes. use xcode 3.2

I do have a much easier way to wire up your outlets/IBActions: Go into assistant mode while looking at your .xib/storyboard. If you are using a storyboard, make sure the view controller you want to wire up is selected. Control-drag from the outlet/control to the appropriate place in the code file...you'll get a dialog box which allows you to specify outlet/action (it generally guess correctly depending on the type of UI element) and allows you to name it, and specify the type of action (touch up inside, etc.) There are several ways to wire up actions/outlets but this is the quickest, I think. It writes them for you. As for the rest...I'll be honest, XCode is all I know so I have no basis for comparison. That said, other than the occasional crash, it works fine for me. I tried AppCode and found it to be a less intuitive interface. Unfortunately, if you're going to develop for iOS you are going to have to use XCode for at least *some* things, so you may as well get used to it. If it's so god-awful, develop for Android. That's all.

Oh by the way, if you don't understand the blue lines, be sure to read a book or two about MVC!

What the... Are you sure Xcode crashes that often? Or are you using new software on old hardware? That'd be pushing it, no wonder you get all those errors and crashes -.- I use Xcode, Eclipse and Visual Studio along with some shitty syntax-highlighting shitty notepad replacements, and I prefer Xcode over any of the other ones... It's fast, stable, has a no-nonsense UI (other IDE's like ECLIPSE could learn from this), has outstanding code completion (better than Intellisense) and is ready to go out of the box (where's your Eclipse now eh?)! No shitty plug-ins for either C++, Git or anything else... Just as it should be! Shame we can't use it for writing code in C#...

Yeah, I've used many, many compilers and IDEs...XCODE takes the cake for the fail. Designer shouldn't be focusing their time on connecting items like IBOutlets, etc. We're designing user interface after all! I think Apple purposely made it like that to weed out all the intelligent programmers. @Sean...have you ever tried other compilers and languages? Good thing is HTML5 (Intel SDK) is growing and will replace xcode and objective-c.

XCode is excellent. Objective-C rocks as a language. Please stop touting your "multiple languages" and "years of experience" That means nothing if you can't realize that eclipse is a rat's nest of half-baked add-ins with a poor, poor UI. Apple has more apps in its app store than any other company. Over 300,000 and growing hourly. Considering every app needed to hit Xcode at some point, it must work somehow. Don't be a hipster in Computer Science, my friend. That only leads to poor logic and poorer commenting. You are a very good complainer. -Sean

Try AppCode from IntelliJ

Xcode makes Visual Studio look ELEGANT!

2.3 Ghz Intel Core i5, 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3 and Xcode crashes! 8 hour/day, 5day/week and i noticed 2-3 crashes in a day! Xcode just shut down without any message box, any bug number, nothing! Only iOS-fanboys can enjoy this shit, but unfortunately we haven't got enything else :(

I had to use XCode in these days. I cannot believe its lack of functions. I must admit it's fast, much faster than eclipse but, for example, its support of svn repositories is absolutely a scandal, hard to believe that someone accepted to release this feature at this state.

totally agree. i have some things to add to the list of hate: error checking is rubbish. for fucks sake if autocorrect can fix my crap spelling on mu iphone surely xcode can do better. when a program crashes it just sens you to the same bit of code every time. SHOW ME WHERE THE ERROR IS! give me some decent feedback! sometimes it just cannot be bothered to do autocomplete for minutes at a time. lots of other stuff

1. I use XCode at least 8 hours a day, at least 5 days a week and haven't seen a single crash in the last at least 4 weeks. It did happen more often in the past, but not that much really... 2. I never noticed the project file was flat, and don't really care about that. IMHO, XCode is quite smart in managing its assets. 3. Honestly if you are a professional iOS dev, you'd better use real devices for testing most of the time. I don't use simulators that often but haven't seen that "failure" you mentioned. Actually I don't even know what it means... 4. CTRL + ALT + ESCAPE and you can kill it. Never checked the zombies... who cares about them if everything is still fast and stable? Or maybe you should upgrade your RAM. I upgraded from 4GB ~> 8GB and it's such a massive improvement. 4GB is simply not enough for XCode or any other intensive things on Mac. Cost only $50 compared to $1000 - $2000 you spent on the Mac itself. 5. iOS 4? Maybe it's not valid now. 6. Man, you don't understand Interface Builder. 7. XCode has some very f***ing annoying bugs, like hanging when I try to print an ivar or an invalid variable, but sorry I don't agree with most of your points :)

Xcode not responding lol

why the fuck does it show me assembly when i switch the bugger off???

fuck xcode

i hear ya buddy. its wasting precious time

oh god xcode uses a lot of resources even more than exclipse! and when i wan'y to restart it stops working, come oooooonnn

oh god xcode uses a lot of resources even more than exclipse! and when i wan'y to restart it stops working, come oooooonnn

To all the people who say "Xcode is crap" and/or "Xcode sucks" and/or "Apple is rubbish" or any other blindly ignorant comment, I have this to say to you: You only rant about Xcode because *you* don't understand how to use it. Having an opinion is part of free will - enjoy it, but that doesn't make Xcode bad; it's great, and half of you are luddites it seems. Wherever one ventures online, there are "WE LOVE <X product>" groups, and then others who say "We HATE <X product". If you do not like Xcode, step away from the computer, move on in your life, and get over it; ranting on blogs is for fools who want other fools to say "yes, *I* agree", which is a false way of you validating your biased opinions. Noone cares really - use what you like, and abandon what you dislike. However, if you left it alone for two years as I did, then suddenly returned, I bet you'd LOVE it, as your focus had been elsewhere all that time, giving your poor, irrationally irritable mind a break from the frustrations that come about because YOU don't understand something - that doesn't make IT bad.

I never programmed for apple products before, I started to use xcode on my virtual machine running on win7 just to try.. well it's a very painful switch from conventional programming, why apple did it in this way I've no idea, however I only experienced crashing a couple of time in more then 200 hours working in xcode, mostly because of my bad programming in xcode.. if it works so well on vm I would think it's fantastic running on apple computers..

lol i think you have a borked install i guess...better you develop for the blackberry or windows phone..ive never encountered such issues with xcode except for some extremely rare crashes

If you hate Xcode that much... wait until you try and develop app on Blackberry

is this supposed to be a joke of some sort ..

Ah, India

Thank you SO much for posting this. I have been developing using xCode for the last 6 months or so, and I was facing number 3 and 4 from your list TIME and time again and I always thought that I must be doing something horribly wrong to get these errors, and I must be totally stupid for not understanding why they are happening. Thank you for helping me realize that this is a problem it seems that EVERYONE is facing - and lets all hope together that apple gets its shit together and solves this problem.

It sucks, piece of garbage, I can hardly believe apple has such success with this low quality software.

I hated Xcode for a while. I used MS Dev Studio for many years and the change was painfull. After a few months I prefer it. It has certainly has issues but you learn to appreciate the things it does well, often better than MS Dev. Just have an open mind, be willing to learn different ways of doing things. The debugger is not as stable as MS Dev. Thats the only real complaint I have about it. It earlier versions did crash on me a few times, that hasn't happened in a while. I miss being able to edit code on the fly as you can running native with MS Dev. But then, MS Dev doesn't let you do that on a phone either. Using MS Dev I miss being able to view source by single clicking its name, and pressing Cmd-Up to get to a header file. I also prefer the way Xcode marks syntax errors while you type.

Xcode just sucks because it's xcode

can't agree more

I just got a Macbook Retina and starting with iOS development. Interestingly enough I can confirm every single problem reported here, though just having a few weeks experience with Xcode. The most horrible bug I found is that if you do a global find replace, Xcode will take a Snapshot of your dev environment, unless you disable the feature. This is starting an infinitive process where in minutes your entire HD space is being eaten up. Well, it depends on your HD space of course. I have a 256 GB SSD with 45 GB free space. The process managed to eat up 20 GB in 15 minutes. To stop this you need to kill Xcode, reboot the machine and clean up the snapshot directory. I could reproduce this with every global find and search, until I disabled the snapshot feature. Having said this, I haven't come to the point yet to hate the IDE. I do Flex development with Flash Builder (Eclipse) and it has many issues too.

I built Canappi, an Objective-C code generator. Canappi is like IB+SB but in a textual form (no need to "drag'n drop". I created an Eclipse plugin for the editor. Last but not least you can create data models and API descriptors to talk to all kinds of back-ends, including MongoDB. It's not a commercial product. You can use it for free. Here are a couple of links that explain: a) how it works with MongoDB: http://www.ebpml.org/blog2/index.php/2012/09/24/build-data-services-in-minutes b) how easy it is to support dual-resolution, dual-form factor: http://www.ebpml.org/blog2/index.php/2012/09/13/easy-iphone-5-screen-resolution

Pretty sad but at WWDC 2012 Xcode has issues in at least two of the presentations...

XCode sucks. You click %B to launch a build and there is little or no visible feedback. If you have the temerity to click %B again, THEN it will tell you "I'm already building - do you want to cancel?" Or you can "stop" a build, and that takes awhile, and if you hit stop again, you'll get an "I'm already stopping" message. The fact that either of those is ever happening indicates many problems.

Here's the thing with Apple, they have to be unique, even if it is terminally unique (adds to their hype). Also, the entire model for the company is control. And when you write something in Xcode, I actually feel controlled. That have to appear to be substantially different than other products, even when they are actually taking ideas from them. But if it is something visual that people will notice, they have to add their Apple spin to let everyone know they somehow found a better way. Xcode is no different. The Mac OS is similar. For instance, why not follow Windows and have a tabs at the bottom for open programs/files and sort them by program/file type? The weird thing is how the culture of mac users reflects all of this. Ask a simple question on a mac forum, and most replies are "why do you want to do that? do this instead". The answerer has no idea why you want to do something with an array, etc; but offer you this incorrect high level criticism. It is like going to Home Depot and asking for a piece of wood and the guy saying "oh no, you don't want wood, you want this big piece of plastic".

my poor monitor has nearly been thrown out the window every day I have to use xcode. as soon as i can stop using an osx dev environment im going to copy all the xcode files to a dvd then crush it into pieces, melt it down, turn it into a tiny little, nice looking statue, just so i can smash it with a hammer.

XCode was and is the worse IDE for development. You might want to try JetBrains AppCode. I switched it as primary IDE 4 months ago and haven't looked back.

Jeez what are you using Xcode on? I never have had stall issues like that. As for long build times that mainly has to do with how good your code is.

Suck it up. There is no competition, so Apple can do what they want. What are you gonna do? Switch to Android? Hahaha!

Being a Visual Studio addicted .NET freak i absolutely agree. I experienced the most terrible moments of solitude and fear in front of XCode. That's why i went for MonoTouch and MonoDevelop on iOS. www.tabulatouch.eu

@V, what is that about "disable the git plugin by replacing it with the subversion plugin and doing some identifier magic in the plist"? How do you do that? I would love to try it as I don't let Xcode mess with my version control anyway.

If someone has an answer to issue #2 please do share. It's annoying that the filesystem is a jumbled mess of files even when your Xcode files are nicely organized. I've seen really clean Xcode repositories on GitHub, so I'm confident it's possible.

I'm another one to completely hate XCode. Crashes all the time, and It's just not a productive environment to work. Interface builder might be ok if you're doing osx development, but for UIKit it makes no sense: the framework is so simple, it's faster to write code instead, and you get a better end result. AppCode is an awesome editor, I use it all day long, every day. Has its bugs, but they're very proactive: you fill a bug and you get a confirmation that it's being fixed for the next release in 1-2 days max. Very un-apple like.

Numbers 1 and 2 have not been issues for me. 3 and 4 used to be horrible (especially having to reboot--WHY?), but with with the latest Lion and XCode updates the problem has gone away for me. I still don't get why connecting to the emulator is a slow as it is. It should be instantaneous, but usually takes at least 5 seconds.

I changed the app identifier whenever it goes to that pesky zombie mode that totally kill the simulator. Rather than restarting my mac. To date I still couldn't find any better way.

I suspect there is something seriously broken in your installation. I've used XCode extensively for years and I don't remember it crashing ever. I have also never seen it fail to connect to the emulator although I must've run it thousands and thousands of times.

Have you looked at AppCode (http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/)? It's basically IntelliJ (by JetBrains as well) for Objective C. Well worth a look

It helps a lot if you disable the git plugin by replacing it with the subversion plugin and doing some identifier magic in the plist. It will fail to load the plugin; which seems to make the crashes and freezes go away.

XCode doesn't crash on me, and it's way faster than Eclipse for editing code files on a Mac. But it's far from perfection (Visual Studio) IMHO. On your issue #6, you can drag and drop the UI element to the view controller to generate automatically the outlet code. And you don't need to make every single outlet in your code a "property", so you don't always need the synthesizer. Thanks for sharing though!

Xcode is awful. We should all be filing a gazillion bugs at bugreport.apple.com. (I have been given reason to believe (by and engineer at WWDC) that the more duplicate bug reports received for a given gripe, the more likely they are to fix that particular gripe.) You've only touched the surface of the things that suck about Xcode here.

It crashes for me when I do git merge and resolve conflicts.

You didn't mention all the other good stuff: Builds that stalls forever; Sometimes a build will not complete for some reason for a long time. You cannot cancel or start a new build until the old one is completed, so you'll be forced to kill xcode or wait 15 minutes until the build eventually completes. Very annoying bug. My Archive-window users 200% CPU whenever open. Great stuff... Why? Deleting/renaming files from the project sometimes (often) crashes Xcode. Searching the documentation is slower than Xcode 3 (or even Google), and implemented such that if you stop typing for a short moment to think, the search starts and you have to wait for the search to finish before you can continue typing (or fix that little typo you made). Indexing takes up a looooooot of CPU and doesn't seem to work well/often. No way to completely disable it. Typing in some files is like walking in deep mud. The editor cannot keep up with you at all. I have been down to 2 characters per second. Code-signing is always a lot of fun and the error messages (if any) are extremely unhelpful. It has gotten a lot better over the years, but it was terrible to begin with and it still stinks. Xcode is one of the Apple products that has gotten worse with every single update. Xcode 3.x were sort of OK in the end, but they took care of that by forcing us all to use 4.x.

It's all because Xcode development has been outsourced to India. Also why don't you like the one giant flat file? Flat file = text processing. I can grep/sed/awk my project file. how cool is that?

About #6 - Have you tried using the drag-drop-into-viewController for you IBOutlets/IBActions? It does all of the boiler plate for you. This comment does imply you intend to get better instead of just having something to bitch about. Cheers!