[Laurenp09]

Has anyone ever moved from VS to xcode? I'm a computer science student and I have always coded in VS (though I've been forced to compile in g++ for a couple classes). I'm considering converting to mac :-O. I spend a lot of time programming and the programming environment is a big factor in whether I switch. I've heard a lot of complaints about xcode opening zillions of windows, files not integrating well, and the debugger failing in multiple ways. Most of these referenced an old version of xcode, and I was wondering if these problems have been fixed.
Any insight is appreciated.

[szymczyk]

I don't know if Xcode 4 addresses all your issues, but I can tell you Xcode 4 no longer opens zillions of windows. If you want everything in one window, that's what you get in Xcode 4.

[cgc]

If XCode doesn't meet your needs you can always virtualize Windows to use Visual Studio. I hate to mention it because I hate the pricing scheme, but Real Studio (aka "Real Basic") is about as close to Visual Studio as we have on OSX though I'm only talking about the Basic language portion, nothing else.

[CharlesS]

Xcode 4 adopts the same sort of single-window workspace that Visual Studio has. I personally hate it and think multiple windows are much more productive, but if a single window is what you want, you'll like that aspect of Xcode. The integration with gdb is a little sketchy. Fortunately, Apple's been working on a replacement called LLDB for a while, and while it's not quite there yet either (it's currently pretty buggy, and is not the default debugger yet for that reason), progress on it has been pretty swift, so the situation is probably going to get better in the next few versions.