Xcode on Windows/Linux would be wacky and not worth the effort - it's very tightly coupled to MacOS so effectively impossible imho. People targeting MacOS/iOS aren't typically running Windows on the desktop. The more critical thing to meeting developers where they are would be for the entire developer loop to be doable from a JetBrains IDE on MacOS.
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> People targeting MacOS/iOS aren't typically running Windows on the desktop.
Or if they are, they're treating macOS/iOS as “blind targets” where those platforms are rarely if ever QA’d or dogfooded.
> The more critical thing to meeting developers where they are would be for the entire developer loop to be doable from a JetBrains IDE on MacOS.
I think most current Apple platform devs would be happiest if they were equipped with the tools to build their own IDEs/toolchains/etc, so e.g. Panic's Nova could feasibly have an iOS/macOS/etc dev plugin or someone could turn Sublime Text into a minimalistic Apple platform IDE. JetBrains IDEs certainly have a wide following but among the longtime Mac user devs in particular they’re not seen as quite the panacea they’re presented as in the larger dev community.