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Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers by prange on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:30PM (#33167140)
I agree about the lack of docs, but it’s not obvious what you are talking about with XCode.

I installed the MAS version years ago and it seems to auto-update just fine for me.

When there is a beta, I install that from developer.apple.com and the two work just fine on the same machine.

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Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers by ajkjk on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:39PM (#33167301)
As you can see from the other replies here, it's not just me.

XCode presumably works fine if you work daily on it. What I can't fucking stand is having to download it to do something unrelated to it (and, lol, how it decides to be the terrible default editor for every file that's even vaguely related to code and then I have to go update all the file associations).

I especially hate that you have to download a second copy every year for the Mac beta. Especially when you have no desire to ever write Swift or Obj-c code in your life, like most of us.

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Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers by prange on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:47PM (#33167438)
Why don’t you just leave it installed?
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Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers by ajkjk on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:11PM (#33167819)
I have to update, I mean reinstall, it every year!
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Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers by prange on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:14PM (#33168661)
Why do you have to reinstall it every year?
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