Codewarrior RIP - was Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
Codewarrior RIP - was Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
- Subject: Codewarrior RIP - was Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
- From: John Daniel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:23:44 -0600
On Feb 17, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
I want one of each. I recognize that different people have
different ways of thinking and working, as well as different needs.
The ideal situation in my mind was when we had CodeWarrior *and*
Xcode. Two different products for two different kinds of people and
work requirements. It's always seemed rather daunting to try to
provide a single development environment that will work well for
all developers. It's good to have a choice. Now we don't. That was
the biggest reason I mourned the death of CodeWarrior.
Larry
I used to maintain a classic version of my program just so I could
run the Codewarrior debugger. GDB just isn't in the same league. As
an IDE, I think Xcode has surpassed Codewarrior. Xcode's "Find in
Project" is so much better than what Codewarrior had. But this is
now, that was then.
I don't think the Mac would have survived if it had not been for
Think C/Pascal and Codewarrior. MPW just couldn't cut it. The old Mac
wasn't Unix and shouldn't have tried to be with MPW. That is why I
mourn the death of CodeWarrior. I can't say I didn't see it coming. I
remember I told MWRon years ago "Powerplant will be the death of
you." They laughed at me. I tried twice to learn Powerplant and
finally gave up for good once I found ToolsPlus. But with the huge
Powerplant commitment, they couldn't make the transition and lost out
to Xcode and IB.
I don't see any such Achilles Heel with Xcode. The debugger is a good
opportunity for improvement. Apple can continue with the Core Data
path and try to go improve creation of RAD/DB/Access-type
applications. Apple's only real competition these days is Visual
Studio and Eclipse. Having used recent versions of both of these, I
don't think Xcode is any real danger for the time being.
John
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