Having to have Xcode installed is more than half the problem. It makes Visual Studio look lightweight.

ryandrake 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Xcode does have (or had, haven't checked for a while) a lightweight "command line tools only" installer. Unfortunately, that installer omits a lot of the actual useful command line tools, like the notary and stapler tools. I also recall that the command line tool only installer leaves out things like the metal compiler, too. Not sure what the point of it is.

	▲	dylan604 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Not sure what the point of it is. My only familiarity with it is because it's needed by brew. I honestly never looked into exactly what is in the package, but I assumed things like what is installed with -devel packages of yum/apt-get/dnf/etc. Lots of repos have common list of things to install like gcc/make/etc. Again, just guessing, but it's one of the first things I've always run on a new Mac to get it usable for CLI usage.
	▲	saagarjha 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It lets you build basic UNIX-like tools.

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gumby 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s mostly all the emulators and platform APIs.

I’m not defending Xcode (I hate it), just clarifying.