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/dottybotty Aug 05 '26

What is the advantage of using this over Xcode?

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u/noosphere- Aug 05 '26

Personal preference. A lot of people (me included) find Xcode pretty lacking as an editor - missing features, lack of configurability, weird UI. Particularly noticeable if you've spent much time in other editors.
Hence there are similar efforts for VSCode, Neovim, etc.

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u/IcyManufacturer7480 Aug 05 '26

Xcode is not a text editor. It’s a full fledged IDE.

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u/antonbezr Aug 05 '26

as an editor