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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Has Apple's software quality declined?
Date: 25 Dec 2014 17:29:19 GMT
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On 2014-12-25, Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
> In article <cg1d59F9gkvU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-12-24, billy@MIX.COM <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:
>> > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> writes, quoting
>> > Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us>:
>> >
>> > How's Xcode working for you?
>> 
>> Great. I compile with Xcode two to five times a week, depending on what
>> I'm working on at the time. And I have no significant issues with it. In
>
> Using XCode two to five times a week is NOT professional use of a Mac.  

*sigh* I meant two to five *days* a week. On the days I use Xcode, of
course I'm compiling multiple times while coding and debugging. I mean,
duh.

> Try all day long, 5 days a week, with 100K to 1M active files (not
> lines) from a team of developers.

I work on projects with millions of lines of code frequently in various
development environments, Xcode being just one of them.

> That's when you start to wonder why a brand new Mac is slower than the
> old Mac, and that's when those rare issues for you become a constant
> loss of work.

Bullshit. Xcode is no worse than others, and certainly better than
others, when it comes to workflow.

> Thankfully, I don't need to use XCode.

Which explains how you know so much about it in real world use - oh
wait.

> I've never seen it work for generic Java or C/C++ any better than
> zillions of free half-assed IDEs, 

Bullshit. I have several C/C++ projects in Xcode and it works just fine.

> and it can't touch a good IDE.

Which IDEs in particular can't Xcode touch, according to you?

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