Apple have put a public page describing the new features in Xcode 4. They’ve also released a developer preview version to those of us, like me, who couldn’t make it to WWDC this year.

Oliver Drobnik scours Twitter for snippets on information on the new XCode 4 announced at WWDC.

Generally developers love that Xcode 4 appears to be a total refresh, lots of thought is apparently being put in, all the more reason to look forward to it.

From the features listed here (git support!) I’m very eager to get my hands on it.

Speaking of features that would be more than welcome in Xcode, upgrading it to gdb7 and integrating reverse debugging would truly be magical.

We can find out where it was changed by setting a watchpoint and using the reverse-continue command. This works just like you would hope: the program runs backwards until the point at which p was changed.

Rumour has it that Xcode 4 will be shown at WWDC next week, so here’s hoping!

Brandon Walkin comes up with some great ideas about how to improve autocomplete & documentation in Xcode.

In this post, I’ll explore some improvements to how documentation and autocompletion is integrated into the development workflow and how Xcode could provide specialized interfaces for working with system frameworks.

I know I’m in the minority, but I prefer Xcode’s documentation viewer & autocomplete to Visual Studio’s anyway, but these ideas, if implemented, would push it into another league.