This is not the first time, but this time I'm really ****** off.
I own a 2018 MacBook Air, I5, 16 GB memory and 512 GB SSD.
I finished the Xcode 12.3 update around 6 hours ago and it is still installing.
Unbelievable.
Solution: uninstall Xcode and never use it again.
I'm very sorry for the folks that use Xcode professionally - wasting a full day/night just installing it.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1
Yeah, it only takes about 20 minutes to download, but about 1 hour to install. I would not update to 12.3 but version 12.2 keeps scrashing ... hopeless.
Xcode 12.3 is as large (compressed) as Big Sur. It is a slow installation on a good day with a fast network and a Mac with your specs. As it is newly available, and there are n-tuple millions around the world using it, it would not surprise me that it took an extended timeframe to install it due to the load on Apple's servers.
That said, I no longer install it, as everything that I need for my development purposes is available in the command-line tools for Xcode 12.3. This is a 450MB (compressed) download that still expands to 2.4 GB of storage, but downloads and installs within ten minutes. All you need for homebrew, MacPorts, RVM, or rbenv builds.
Xcode taking ages to install - is it an Apple malignant plan to wear out our computers?
