Okay, can you give some details on what's wrong for you? Like what is the better way to do it?

Xcode doesnt even support features like format on save nor does it have powerful enough api to support a mod ecosystem to fill in its gaps.

It has all sorts of bugs and weird fail cases.

Honestly you should just search the internet for testimonials because anyone who uses Xcode can create a list of issues rather than rehash them all here in response.

I grew to dislike mods and ever growing features. Lately I'm experimenting with Swift Playgrounds and I start liking it very much precisely because lacks a lot of features but its still capable do a lot.

So many features and linters and tools end up building a huge cognitive overhead, which is the primary reason I haven't been touching JS since a few years. The JS world piled up so me sh*t in order to make the working with JS something that is not, that I found myself not having energy and time to do something other that setting up tools and frameworks.

What I want is to be able to start coding like start writing an article in a Word document and Swift Playgrounds is getting there. XCode was good too but wasn't anything special, Swift Playgrounds is amazing.

I'm especially excited for WASM, so maybe I can just write everything in Swift eventually.

For starters, that Xcode's "vim" emulation doesn't even support arguably the most useful, common, and productive operator in vim -- the dot -- is embarrassing. So many developers depend on vim-like interaction for significant gains in productivity, but Xcode only got about halfway there, and not the better half.