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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by herbturbo on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:15PM (#30380045)
I've been using Xcode every working day for over 12 years and on the whole it has been excellent. It definitely has some quirks but it is a feature rich workhorse.

It has integrated docs, simulators, unit/UI test functionality inc coverage reports, live UI debugging, tons of profiling tools, and I can use it to upload my apps straight to App Store Connect. Starting with XCode 13 I also have built in CI/CD. I can build, profile, test and deploy a whole app on multiple platforms from scratch with it. And its free.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by sirwhinesalot on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:41PM (#30380290)
Every release of Xcode has been a buggy mess. Every. Single. One. It certainly has lots of features but I'd much rather it had less features and more polish. The worst sin a tool can make is to be unreliable and that's the best word I can use to describe Xcode.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by alimov on Thursday February 17, 2022 @08:20PM (#30381080)
“Every. Single. One.” There have been some bugs here and there, but it’s really not the mess you’re claiming it to be.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by sirwhinesalot on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:57AM (#30383549)
The Apple App Store likes to show reviews that are tied to a country, but at least for the ones I see Xcode sits at a proud 2.6 stars, with hundreds of 1 star reviews complaining about bugs and crashes.

Certainly reflects my experience as well. When the text editor of a development environment doesn't work right, I mean, shouldn't that be job number 1? Search google for "Xcode bugs", you'll see thread after thread of complaints.

I can find major complaints of bugs and crashes going all the way from 9 years ago to the latest Xcode release, no other development environment has this many complaints. It is by far the most buggy and crash prone development environment available today. People _happily_ pay for AppCode for a reason.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by hackerfromthefu on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:09AM (#30386676)
You're right, XCode is full of bugs are here AND there.

Ideally it would be here OR there, ie much less of them!

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Re:Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on le... by jamil7 on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:05AM (#30382923)
The last few are actually alright but there did seem to a be period where it broke every release and dropped highlighting and completion as sourcekit would crap out. Word is internal apple devs were also annoyed and complaining frequently.
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