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Dev Chair: My love-hate relationship with Apple development

downloadsquad.com — Alex Hung, a co-developer of the blogging client ecto, muses on his experience with programming on both Windows and Mac OS X.

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  • CountZero75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@organon

    You should try VS Studio without all the designer crap, and then throw in ReSharper (or something similar) and see how much more productive you will become. Nowadays working without ReSharper is like programming with one arm... And that's what I mean in the article what Xcode is still lacking.
  • Attrition, on 10/12/2007, -0/+110.3 would be the OS X version, not the Java version.
  • organon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1XCode is the best IDE I have worked with so far (outside emacs/shell combination). What makes it ages better than VS for example is, that it doesn't autmatically do a lot of things you have little or no control over, which usually comes back to bite you in the ass. And what makes it better than VS and Eclipse by far is responsiveness.
  • bmartin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The problem isn't so much the lack of languages, but rather the lack of a great IDE. Sure, Eclipse runs on Macs, but the CDT isn't nearly as mature as the Java tooling, and I can only imagine what Objective C is like on there. You can't truthfully say that C and C++ do not exist on OS X... of course they do. Anything that reaches a certain level of utility will be ported.

    FTA: "[...] Java as the programming languages of choice but ever since version 10.3 Java had been put onto the back burner [...]"

    That's cool... version 10.3? Sun is only up to Java 6. Is this anything like the Microsoft JVM? If so, I can't blame them for phasing it out.
  • darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um... Xcode?
  • CountZero75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was referring to OS X version.

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