Ask HN: How to make iOS dev/Xcode bereable?

1 points by miguelmato ↗ HN
I have some experience with Flutter, and maybe I'm spoiled as Flutter's DX is top notch in lot of areas, but I'm trying to dive into iOS development and I can't stand XCode.

The text editor window feels clumsy, the keyboard shortcuts are lacking compared to VSCode and the default keybindings are way off of what I consider sane. The autocomplete does not import libraries and the quick-fix action shortcut cannot fix that import error that is indeed fixed when I snif click the error indicator. Error that takes 2-3s after I'm done typing to show or disappear. And this only in 30 minutes into XCode! Every time I type my desire to keep going is halved.

How do you guys do it? Is working with code in VSCode+Swift extension[1] a working solution? I read on reddit that Google has an internal VSCode extension to code iOS apps on it (not linking because redditor that claims to be a googler deleted the post but cache: trick to see closed subreddits stills shows it). Do I have to grind leetcode to code a todoapp? Okay, that was just half joking.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swift-lang

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