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I just recently started programming with Swift. As a user of many JetBrains products, I'm curious to know if many Mac/iOS programmers use AppCode. Is that a viable IDE for iOS programming?



AppCode's great for what it does, but you still use Xcode a lot for things AppCode doesn't do. You can probably reduce the Xcode dependency by replacing parts of its functionality with stuff like XcodeGen if this bothers you. I almost always have both open at once. IME very few iOS devs use it, but I'm just saying that because I've never worked with one.


Yeah I'm interested in giving it a shot because I am so used to all the keyboard and navigation shortcuts that work across all the JetBrains IDEs. I use DataGrip, PyCharm, and Android Studio daily already and throwing Xcode into the mix really throws me off.


I don't know how many. But I use it. It's slower than Xcode. But I use it for most of my iOS (and macOS) programming work.




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