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That seems well designed and artsy, but doesn't really tell me much about what is wrong with Xcode as it currently stands.

I'm a Visual Studio and (text editor + command line) user as far as programming goes, so could anyone describe what these problems with Xcode are? As they could also be present on other IDE's and such.

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The main thing wrong with Xcode 4 is that it is incredibly unstable, compared to any other major IDE (Xcode 3 included).

It crashes several times every day, without fail. It also does things like bork its own project files such that they can no longer be opened, and the programmer has to roll back to an earlier version and make the changes again.

I've only started experiencing the crashiness after I upgraded to Lion. Before then, I was personally rock solid on Xcode 4.

There is a "project" file, listing all the files related to the project (kind of a Makefile of Xcode). If modified externally (e.g.: by pulling changes of that file) Xcode crashes.

Well that sounds like a serious defect, stemming from the assumptions made when writing Xcode.

Though to be honest I tend to close down any IDEs that I have open when updating such files, especially if there are dozens of projects in a workspace/solution.

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