How many of those people who spend their time using other IDEs on other OSs (where Xcode doesn't run) spend any amount of time using Xcode and therefore have the requisite experience to be able to know that it's generally excellent?
And when you say "you hear", you really mean "you", not "me". I hear it a lot.
What motivated your comment?
> Hasn't everybody at least tried everything significant just because?
No, not in the slightest. I would call this one the most dangerous and unfortunate fallacies that so many intelligent people have ever accepted and been cheated by. If it were true, you'd know everything important there is to know, and be a master of philosophy, and would have many answers to some basic questions which most people have been told have no good or concrete or verifiable answers.
> Hyperbole is rarely useful.
So you'll use some other kind of fallacious argument? anyway, it wasn't hyperbole. it's reduction to absurdity. Your struggle is that you don't realize that I'm right because you are in the situation that I describe. if you want to be helpful to yourself, then you can ask me for proof of what I'm talking about instead of merely causing doubt in the minds of any other readers. If you have any real counterexample or proof then you are free to present it. Meanwhile, I've got tons of evidence for what I said and it would be lucky for the world if that were true, would it not? and if hyperbole is not so helpful, then why don't you help by giving some other examples to substantiate my argument? That's collaboration in good faith. so are you actually disagreeing with what I'm saying or are you just attempting to plant doubt in people's minds and not being forthcoming about why even with yourself?
Something supposedly hyperbolic should be even easier to disprove. That's why I posed it that way - to leave you less room for doubt as I start to show you positive evidence. If it turns out I was right, would you still be upset at me for saying that intelligent people fall for fallacies? That doesn't have to be your fate unless you somehow participate in it, and I would suggest to you it's because you've accepted something untrue and uncomfirmed without realizing it, leading you to assume that no one has a solution, simply because you've never experienced or encountered them. Lucky for us there are people who know things we don't and have not yet imagined and whose levels in some areas are much higher than our own. The humble or cultivated in virtue know this and are lucky for it as they see it as a benefit rather than an afront to their pride or reflection on themselves somehow.
Hasn't everybody at least tried everything significant just because? Even the most non-apple developer must have at least checked it out on a friends laptop or something just to be informed of the state of their own business.
If there are developers who are that incurious, all I can say is I don't understand them.