> Call me unrealistic or even a snob, but the nature of the work we do
> is such that anyone doing it should have above average analytical
> skills and be able to express his thoughts. Anyone using Xcode should
> be able to offer more than "It needs to be better," especially if
> he's used something he thinks *is* better, as you apparently have.
I think the radar system works extremely well, the times I have used
it. However, in this case, I haven't spent enough time with XCode to
be able to describe the problems well enough for the radar system.
Hence the vague complaints.
But maybe it's time to reframe the issue. I think the larger problem
is that the Apple tool situation changed dramatically last year, and
that may require a matching change in Apple's role.
For a while, Think Pascal/C was the development platform of choice for
many developers, then CodeWarrior took over.
However, now there is no alternative development platform created by
some company that HAS to make the product user-friendly, or lose money.
And I guess you're right, with a free competitor, there is little
chance a competing/better product will ever appear again.
Does Apple really WANT to be the monopoly provider? If so, then I
think it had better find a way to make XCode more 'elegant', or risk
losing the most creative new developers (and some old ones). That
probably means listening more to vague complaints, and addng some of
the GUI design elegance that appears in other Apple products. Or get
that elegance from a retired product GUI that already had it.
If not, then it's time to do something to foster competition, and
quickly.
Dennis Kolva
Turtle Creek Software
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