![]() If you enjoy Xcode better, that’s great too, go forth and kick ass as well.Įither way, have fun and sling some good code. If you try it and love it, great, go forth and kick ass. There’s nothing that objectively makes one better than the other so YMMV. In the end, all of this is merely opinion. It seems the price to pay for the extra editing feature is a longer indexing time for large projects on startup.Įven with these quirks and some others I still love it. (Add in running one or two sims, and slack, and sketch, etc, etc, and my poor machine gets super hot) But the CPU burn can drain battery on a laptop. The memory I haven’t found to be too much of a problem because MacOS swaps well. We use storyboards and xibs heavily, so I always have Xcode open as well as AppCode so I can flip to Xcode when working on graphics (I have no experience yet with SwiftUI, so I can’t speak to that).Īll the IntelliJ IDEs are Java based so there’s a decent amount of extra memory and cpu used (especially if you end up running both Xcode and AppCode. That said it does have a couple of drawbacks: You do not need to install Java to run AppCode because JetBrains Runtime is. (I think Xcode might be able to do this now) AppCode is available on macOS only since it cannot run without Xcode. Running multiple simulators each with a separate console window. I am writing macOS Swift application with the following environment: XCode 12 and/or JetBrains AppCode 2020.2 Swift 5 macOS 10.15.7 Catalina The Swift app has the following View code as its main. Some things you can’t stop in the debugger so console tools are my friend. Multi window management seems more sane to me.Ī 3rd party tool I can’t live without anymore is GrepConsole that let’s you have multiple console windows each one grepping the main console. Some of the pluses that I find (some of which others have mentioned) are: This is just my opinion, but I feel the editing experience is way better than Xcode. It is especially good if you have used other IntelliJ IDEs before, as it feels like home. I love it and wouldn’t go back to only Xcode. I use it all day every day on a fairly large production code base in the App Store. ![]()
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