Re: XCode or CodeWarrior 9
Re: XCode or CodeWarrior 9
- Subject: Re: XCode or CodeWarrior 9
- From: Florent Pillet <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:42:34 +0100
To add a counterpoint, I used to develop one of my commercial products
with CodeWarrior until I became worried by both the degradation of the
debugger quality, and the obviousness of the death of PowerPlant. I
should add that I've been a unix user for more than 14 years and that
gcc has all my respect. It may not be the best compiler, but it works
fairly well.
So despite the quirks, I develop and build my commercial application
with XCode. Even though there are problems, crashes, etc... there are a
few points that get my vote in favor of XCode:
- the editor does proper antialiasing. This may not seem much but when
you spend 12 hours a day starring at your code you come to appreciate
this little detail.
- I added the excellent ODCompletionDictionary to XCode, and I get
automatic and FAST completion on Esc. The power of this little tool is
amazing and I virtually save hours of typing. This is something that I
sorely miss when I have to use CodeWarrior (and I do when I do Palm
development).
- I like gdb.
- I use CVS and the CVS integration in XCode works just fine.
In addition, I tend to prefer Cocoa applications to Carbon
applications. They "feel" better, though this is very subjective.
Each one has good reasons to use an environment or another. Use the one
that suits your needs, that's all I can say.
Florent
On 28 nov. 03, at 20:25, Richard Clark wrote:
Xcode is unfinished and has bugs. CodeWarrior works.
Despite the hyperbole, this is essentially true -- Xcode is decent as
long as you have fairly straightforward needs, but do anything special
(like porting legacy code) and you'll soon run into the unfinished
edges. The documentation is sparse and features are incomplete (e.g.
just try to add a tool to the build process.)
CodeWarrior has its shortcomings as well (it's best to get a copy of
BBEdit and use that as a text editor instead of the built-in one), but
the compilers are fast and generate solid code, the documentation is
complete, and they've had a decade to polish the product.
The bottom line is "what's your time worth?" Hobbyists, students (or
just out of school folks), and the unemployed have an economic reason
to hang in with Xcode. Those who have a business need should probably
stick w/ Code Warrior (even with the substantial upgrade cost) because
you could spend more than the upgrade cost in the time you spend
getting Xcode to work for you.
This is the decision you have to make with _any_ release 1.0 product
-- to use it now, to wait, or to take another path.
...Richard
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Florent Pillet, Code Segment email@hidden
Developer tools and end-user products for Palm OS & Mac OS X
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