Why did it? Emacs is a great development environment. It allows you to focus on the code and supports debugging right next to your code, same as an ide. It is an ide.
Emacs lacks some features of xcode/eclipse et al but in exchange it has power they lack. Why shouldn't it gain some of their features?
(I am assuming you loled because you considered emacs weaker. My apologies if I got the sense backwards).
I've been programming in emacs since 1992, 2014 was the year I finally gave up and started to move into IDEs (having to target android was the primary motivation for using something else, but I'm rapidly getting spoiled, and am going to shell out for clion once it's done).
There's stuff I miss about emacs, and I'll keep using it for text files and r code and other stuff (it's still my primary python editor until I get around to trying pycharm), but by and large I think I'm done with it for c/c++.
Here on HN, Xcode bashing is second only to C++ bashing.
What's wrong with xcode? It has static analysis complete with annotations, integration with instruments for thread / network / CPU / memory monitoring, integration with lldb, code completion, code folding, quick navigation, details about callers and callees from any function, details about generated code (so you can look at the preprocessed code), the same with assembly (if you so desire!), test integration, class hierarchies, documentation for relevant functions (same as man, documentation for Apple SDKs) but IS missing refactoring for C++ (it does C and Obj-C).
Which bit about all of that is missing?? (other than refactoring C++)
I am using 6.1.1 and I haven't had it crash for the past 6 months, using it 7.5 hours a day (and 3 hours a night too). 6.0 was buggy as anything but 6.1.1 is rock-solid for me.
Thank you for pointing to the AUR, another great example of where you should never trust the maintainer blindly and _ALWAYS_ inspect the PKGBUILD yourself before installing.
