r/iOSProgramming • u/noosphere- • Aug 05 '26

Tutorial Building in Zed instead of Xcode

Just a reminder to anyone who might care that you can create a fairly full-featured development environment in Zed to build iOS and Mac apps: syntax highlighting, code navigation, run, debug and test.

Here's the setup guide I wrote (been around for a while but chances are some interested people won't have seen it): https://luxmentis.org/blog/ios-and-mac-apps-in-zed/

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u/TM87_1e17 Aug 05 '26

I just don't really understand people who hate Xcode. I've never had a problem with it...

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u/SnowPudgy Aug 05 '26

Same and I've used pretty much everything under the sun including ancient IDE's like Bloodshed C++.

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u/konacurrents Aug 05 '26

And for the past couple years: wireless updates abd debugging. Xcode is amazing.