I’ve been developing for Mac OS X and iOS for a long time and I can’t say that I’m really happy with Xcode 4. It’s like ambivalent love. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I really hate it. I always do remember my experience with other IDEs from Borland, Microsoft, Eclipse Foundation, … and I tend to cry. I feel that Apple tries to add as many as possible features to make it more comfortable for nowadays developers and I’m not sure it’s a good direction.

But I’m quite happy now, because I found AppCode. It’s an Objective-C IDE, which is based on really great IDE named IntelliJ IDEA. And do you know what’s really great too? It’s Czech company. Okay, owned by two people from Russia, but who cares, me not.

It’s written in Java, but I don’t see a difference in speed. Sometimes it’s much more faster compared to Xcode with beach ball.

No final verdict yet, but I like it very much. I feel I do use real IDE where I have more control. Try it yourself and you’ll see. It’s currently in Beta stage and you can also subscribe for 50 % discount to get it for less than 45 € later.

P.S. I look forward for how long they survive, because I never thought it has sense to develop something like AppCode. Good luck guys, I’ll buy one license for sure.