I have an 8 core i9 @ 2.4 and 32GB Of RAM and opened this page in Safari and good grief it’s the worst performance of a web page I’ve ever seen, not joking. It’s practically unusable.
Given the product I’m curious is the performance of your landing page by design?
I want people who haven't used Xcode to understand that this isn't a connection issue, there is something specifically weird happening with Xcode when you try to upgrade it.
It has to be wed to the OS in such a way that makes the propensity for this vague failure state to occur, because I've never had it happen with anything else.
Upgrading from the App Store sometimes will hang at 99% and no matter what you do save some weird incantations to remove stuff from this secret App Store cache to remove the download to begin its excruciatingly slow download again, only with the hope in your heart this impenetrable and silent error doesn't happen again.
And of course none of this is addressed by Apple. You think you can just download versions from the developer site? Well enjoy, and I am not joking, a 30+ minute unzipping of the .xip file (yep that's right, it's not a .zip).
Apple does not care about it's developer ecosystem, even though you are such a huge part of it's success. It's apparent in their thread bare documentation, their terrible tools, their greedy practises.
I get it. They are a business. But they do not deserve their halo.
Xcode unironically made me try to change career from iOS developer to pen tester. I've spent way too much time in its guts and I think its left a little bit of taint on my soul. It is unfathomably bad.
And Apple keep bolting stuff on to it (and the new stuff doesn't work - Canvas for SwiftUI previews for example).
It's slow, broken in numerous ways, depends on file formats that aren't used anywhere outside of Apple and completely undocumented. It is such a painful tool to use.
I'm procrastinating on HN right now because my iOS build time is 2 and a half minutes long. About 30-50 seconds on an incremental build. This is true suffering.
Oh wanted to update with Specs;
2019 MacBook Pro with 2.4Ghz Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM.
One thing you really miss when leaving Medium is the audience. It is easy for people search Medium for a topic they are interested in and find it within the first couple of articles.
If you are trusting Google to be your entry point for traffic you have to play all kinds of gross games with your content for SEO purpose and if you are adding value to an already well explored topic there will be someone out there trouncing you in SEO.
Medium was initially brilliant because it solved this by aggregating content in a slick website, with great search, and it still does a decent job of showing you new content based on your interests. I think this is a part of why its so frustrating. When I go on the home page I see a bunch of articles I would want to read, go to click them and get paywalled.
But then the money men came. I'm not convinced there is anything out there like Medium in terms of ease-of-use, ability to get your content in front of others, good at surfacing new content you would want to read and also Medium pay content authors really really well.
Given the product I’m curious is the performance of your landing page by design?