“Xcode is a powerful professional tool that allows you to perform the most common software development tasks simply, quickly, and in a way that should be familiar. Its capabilities, however, are much more powerful than what is needed to build just a single type of application. Xcode is designed to let you build any kind of software product you can dream of. From Cocoa and Carbon applications to kernel extensions and Spotlight importers, Xcode is up to the task.”
I see another silly gui improving naught.
Yes, GUIs are for pussies. Real programmers only ever use sed and awk.
Oh, wait, do those even operate on raw binary files?
Yes they do but those are not for managing a program build either. If you had ever actually programmed you probably would have thought of Make or ANT or autoconf or even Eclipse. Programmers expect more from their tools than just a pretty face and are not easily impressed by one, not to infer that Xcode’s lotus twisty/explorer style interface is the least bit attractive.
Its not perfect but as a Mac developer since 1984 it’s the best I’ve seen yet. I also just enjoy working with it.
Too bad it’s incredibly slow once you are working on large projects.