I would, a million times, pick writing web apps over interacting with Xcode in any capacity or deal with the proprietary project formats or deal with git in an iOS app project or debug the arcane errors that xcode spits out. Drilling down to figure out where a div is that I need to change is child's play in comparison. You are citing imaginary problems. CSS-in-JS is not that bad and, given the choice, you don't even need to use it. In contrast, you have no choice but to use Xcode and Apple's incredibly poor DX to ship to iOS and I do not want to suffer that
They are not imaginary problems. And Apple's DX isn't "incredibly poor"; coding SwiftUI views with Canvas and the #Preview macro is a dream compared to farting around with Eclipse or one of it derivatives.
Xcode's DX is probably a decade behind competitors, possibly even more. Android Studio is far better than Xcode because, for one, the dependency management and version control actually works and is mostly something you can safely ignore for most toy and small apps and ,for two, is a reasonably well rounded IDE built by a company that specialises in making IDEs. You're comparing Eclipse to Xcode when I don't think Eclipse has been used to build Android apps in 7+ years. The moment you have to do anything complex like even simply debugging errors and performance, Xcode falters and drops the ball. If all you're doing is building a +1 counter then I'm sure that works. For anything more complex, Xcode is hell. Or at least was when I was working on it until the pandemic post which I gave up
This isn't even going into what an utterly horrific editor it is that is plagued with bugs and is missing basic IDE features like a functioning autocomplete, refactoring etc. Mind you, at one point I was celebrating because they finally added highlighting your cursor line in an update after the extensions I used to add that broke. That's how bad Xcode was circa 2015 when simple text editors had those features baked in. If you're comparing Xcode to Eclipse and ranting about JS, then feels like you kept up with how engineering has evolved for Android and JS in maybe 5-10 years. In contrast, it feels like Xcode only adds incrementally miniscule changes and every time I look at it, they seem to not have improved it much at all
All this isn't even getting into what an awful experience simply updating the damn thing is. Why does it have to download 20GB every couple of months and why does it fail so often?
I'm sorry I'm so aggressive but nothing has made my hairs more gray than trying to work with Xcode. It is appalling that it's basically the only way you can develop apps for the Apple ecosystem
And I hate Xcode as much as the next person, but that's not even getting into the dumpster fire of trying to have CI/CD pipelines for iOS or macOS artifacts. I am aware that both GitHub and GitLab are now offering macOS runners, and AWS has macOS instances, but it's still "not the same" and is one more innovation token to manage
