Edit (16 Feb 2015): A long time has passed since I originally wrote this post and I believe it can very well be considered out of date. As a matter of fact I’ve recently published a new post titled “Why AppCode has become my IDE of choice”. A few months ago I heard about AppCode, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Objective-C developed by the Czech software studio JetBrains. JetBrains is a well-known company in the software development community for their other IDEs (IntelliJ Idea for Java, PyCharm for Python, RubyMine for Ruby, etc.) and for their Continuous Integration products. Many Java developers favor JetBrains’s IDE over Eclipse, especially since JetBrains released a ‘Community Supported’, and thus free, version of IntelliJ Idea. Moreover, Google recently partnered with the Czech company to create a dedicated IDE for Android, which is basically going to be a simplified version of IntelliJ: Android Studio. Fellow Cocoa(-Touch) developers, at least from what I could see or hear, are either uninterested or very excited about AppCode. As for myself, I’ve had mixed feelings about trying AppCode for development with Objective-C, but after having spent some time gathering more information about it, I’ve decided to give AppCode a try by taking advantage of the 30-days free trial being offered by JetBrains. I’ve used AppCode for the entire trial period now and I’d like to share my thoughts on it… and as I’ve spoiled from this post’s title, I’m going to explain why I’m not going to use it anymore. [...]
