• adonis@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    35
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I still don’t understand why programmers are forced to use a specific tool, to write apps for a specific ecosystem.

    i.e. writing a Flutter mobile app for Android and iOS. You can do everything in VSCode for the Android part incl. the apk-build.

    But for iOS you’re forced to use Xcode for implementing certain things like permissions, build and upload.

    Nothing but headaches.

    • lazyvar@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      But for iOS you’re forced to use Xcode for implementing certain things like permissions, build and upload.

      You can do all that via VSCode as well if you so desire.

      Permissions, configurations, etc. are essentially all just XML files and can be edited as such, building, running in simulator and uploading can all be done via CLI.

      And if you’re not comfortable doing it via the terminal in VSCode, you can also find some extensions.

      Personally as a native dev I don’t know why you’d want to of course, but to each their own.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t mind being locked into Xcode if Apple would beef it up and make it better.

      • adonis@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, for the 100 bucks they take each year, just to be able to publish apps on their platform, there’s really no financial excuse for not making it better.

  • loutr@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    After a decade as a Java (and Kotlin) dev I recently got to work on an iOS app. The transition from Jetbrains products to Xcode has been painful, to say the least.

    I tried appcode before it was retired, and it was a much better experience all around. I can’t understand why Apple insists on maintaining this pile of crap instead of working with JB like Google.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      I can’t understand why Apple insists on maintaining this pile of crap…

      I mean if they’re using Xcode to maintain Xcode, then that’s your answer.

    • tamethecoach@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the same boat, been working on Android apps personally and professionally for about 6 years and recently had to do some work for our iOS app and I’ve spent every minute wishing I could use a JetBrains product instead

  • lazyvar@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I think you might be misunderstanding what this does.

    You did a search for symbol references that contain “User” ignoring cases.

    When you do a search for symbol references this way, Xcode will return two things:

    1. A declaration of all the symbols containing “User” and/or some context surrounding the symbol (ignoring Case)
    2. Show any places where your code references the symbol

    And it did just that.

    The first three .swift files show references to symbols that contain “User”.
    The forth one, User.swift, is in and of itself a symbol that matches the query and has symbols inside itself.
    The last one UserViewModel.swift is in itself a symbol as well and all the parts that are nested within that you’ve annotated with underscores and question marks, serve to give you context about the symbol “UserViewModel”, hence the ellipses.

    It’s essentially telling you “Hey I’ve found this symbol UserViewModel, it starts with a var named username, has a bunch of stuff following that (i.e. …) then has an extension, then some more stuff (i.e. …) and then ends”.

    Without knowing what’s inside UserViewModel.swift I can’t tell if it goofed with giving you a typical declaration, but that doesn’t change the fact that its trying to give you context about a valid search result, the symbol UserViewModel, so that you can figure out if that’s the one you’re looking for.

    Keep in mind that variables are considered symbols as well, but in this instance I don’t think that’s what happened here, otherwise it would’ve been marked with a P instead of a C.

    If this is not desired behavior then I suggest you switch from “Containing” to “Matching Word” or instead consider using the search bar at the bottom of the Symbol Navigator. Another option, if you’re searching while going through code, is to right click on the symbol in your code and click Find > Find Selected Symbol in Workspace.

    Lastly it might be an idea to go over the Xcode documentation as a refresher. This would be a good starting point.

    That said, Apple clearly feels that things can be improved by clarifying, because in the current Xcode beta they’ve changed the option label from References to Symbols (and added a few more options).

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ll be the first to admit that I am certainly no Xcode expert. So thank you for taking the time to explain how the reference/symbols search works.

      Another option, if you’re searching while going through code, is to right click on the symbol in your code and click Find > Find Selected Symbol in Workspace.

      Funny enough, that’s what I did. Everything in the search window is what was selected by default in Xcode; probably why I was confused. I still contend it’s not intuitive.

      • seeaya@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah not sure why Find Selected Symbol defaults to contains instead of matching. My search results get polluted with other symbols when I search for example MyStruct.image and MyStruct also has the property imageName.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I mean in a way the ? makes it an uncertain question because it is optional, so in a way you’re absolutely right to think that way.

  • StarManta@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    I see the blank lines being included is odd, is that it? Why are the other lines being underlined?

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Because two of them are strings, and one is a declaration of an extension. None of which are of type User.

      • Aatube@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        All you searched was “User”, ignoring case. You didn’t search the type of user, so it correctly returned lines with “user” in it like “private var username”

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          If what you’re saying is true, that’s an even more WTF because I’m searching for User references, and not the text “[Uu]ser”.

          • StarManta@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 year ago

            It’s plainly obvious in this screenshot that you’re just searching for the text “user”.

          • Aatube@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 year ago

            I’m pretty sure you’re not doing what you think you’re doing because of the “containing” right after the arrow. To search a symbol you usually select it, right click it, and then click on something.

            • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              To search a symbol you usually select it, right click it, and then click on something.

              Funny you say that… because that’s what I did.

              • Aatube@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                Weird, what was the something you clicked? It may be something wrong with that button instead of the search function, as there’s “containing” after the arrow so it’s not really a symbol search.

                • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  As suggested by others, I changed the Containing to Matching Word and that helped tremendously.

  • Aatube@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Save for the “…” blank lines I see no problem with this. You just ran a Ctrl (command?) + F on everything that contains “User” ignoring case and it did exactly that.

  • hdsrob@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Xcode seems to get worse with each release.

    The really basic things that it’s missing are frustrating too, like bookmarks. This has been a feature of every other IDE I’ve used since '98 when I started programing in VB6.

    A few versions ago they removed the ability to tear a tab out of the IDE to have it open separately.

    • meat_popsicle@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      A few versions ago they removed the ability to tear a tab out of the IDE to have it open separately.

      WTF why? Do XCode devs not use their own product or something???

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I was actually looking to add Swift to my list of languages but if Xcode is this shitty, it’s kind of a deterrent.