Xcode 4.2 was atrociously buggy and I frequently had crashes on an hourly basis. 4.3 seems a bit more stable - but lldb still has quite a few issues (understandable). As a developer, I'd sort of expect a bit more support and _reliability_ from the development tools.<p>It isn't completely a cost center as they do make money from developer subscriptions.
Flagging as trolling...and then taking the troll-bait.<p>All software ships with bugs--including the software this guy will create using XCode. Despite that, this type of drivel is still common among software developers. "One (relatively minor) bug exists that happens to annoy me: that must mean their whole QA process is shit!"<p>Come off it; this type of rant would be warranted if XCode routinely crashed when you paste a paragraph of text into a label--not because it behaves in a funky way.
With all due respect that bugs are frustrating to deal with.<p>This user couldn't be any more of a prima-donna if they could sing F6.<p>A page dedicated to a completely superficial bug, whose fix will go mostly unnoticed. How about some useful criticism?
Unhelpful trolling. Xcode is buggy. As dev-facing software that's undergoing a cycle of rapid change, it's not as clean as everyone would like it to be. I'm not convinced it could be much cleaner at the rate they're changing things.<p>And IB has always handled labels with long blocks of text badly. That's because they're not supposed to hold long blocks of text, they're supposed to hold labels.
Why are so many poorly written articles making it to the front page? It seems to me the author didn't do any QA on their article either. It's hard to take someone's argument seriously when they don't take the time to proofread their own work.
I don't really understand the sentiment of the author. Xcode is free, and even when it wasn't free it was very very cheap. A decade or two ago it was very common to charge hundreds of dollars for much much shittier IDEs, the Professional edition of Visual Studio is still at least $500 and Apple is giving away Xcode for <i>free</i>. There are alternatives if you don't like it, JetBrains has an excellent IDE for Objective-C development but you can also use VIM or Emacs.<p>Really, I am puzzled by this level of sense of self-entitlement.
I have been using the developer preview for Xcode 4.4 (running on Mountain Lion) to work through some OS X and iOS 5 programming tutorials. I am doing this for fun, not as part of my consulting business, but that said, I am not running into any show stopping problems.
FWIW, a friend mentioned that disabling sync over wifi solved at least one major crashing issue.<p>Link to tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mmartel/status/169145796107833345" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/#!/mmartel/status/169145796107833345</a>