Of course, since your professional career has been spent at Microsoft working in the Visual Studio group, it is no wonder you would perpetuate this view.
Xcode is far superior to microsoft's development tools. I think you're simply exhibiting stockholm syndrome. Please go back to developing only for windows. Thank you.
That really is where he's coming from. I worked at Microsoft a few years back, with some Vista and IM guys, and none of them used Visual Studio, despite pleas for feedback from DevDiv. It was all gvim and build.exe and windbg (the latter vastly more powerful than the VS debugger, even though I think the same team produced both).
Xcode is far superior to microsoft's development tools. I think you're simply exhibiting stockholm syndrome. Please go back to developing only for windows. Thank you.