Re: Codewarrior vs XCode
Re: Codewarrior vs XCode
- Subject: Re: Codewarrior vs XCode
- From: Turtle Creek Software <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:51:04 -0700 (PDT)
I have been lurking on the XCode list for a few months now, ever since
the Macintel announcement.
Seems like there are many angry posts about various XCode flaws. I
suspect the background to that is that many Mac developers have been
using CodeWarrior for years, and are highly productive on a familiar
(and generally quite elegant) interface. Maybe CodeWarrior died
because Motorola didn't care, but it seems likelier that competing
against free software (i.e. XCode) was the primary cause of death.
That's got to stir up some anger for CW folks who suddenly have no
choice but to switch to the culprit.
Well that's history, but the thing is, right now there are still many
Mac developers using CodeWarrior, with a lot of CW projects that "just
work" (e.g. we compile for Mac 9, Mac X and Windows from one project,
which will be impossible to do in XCode). Many of us would rather
write new accounting code or whatever, rather than spend frustrating
months just getting back to where we started.
Probably a lot of developers have not even started to consider a switch
yet. For us, because our Mac volume is so low relative to Windows,
we'll probably just wait for a real Macintel machine instead of blowing
$1000 for a temporary test unit-- so we probably won't even start on
the XCode port til spring. How many other developers are planning to
do the same?
I imagine the anger level on this list will only increase as more
people face the swap.
Remember, many of us are old-time Mac folks who spent YEARS arguing
with the DOS majority, saying that drag and drop was so much easier
than typing something stupid like "otool -L <library name.dylib>" into
a command line. Oops wait a minute, that's OSX not MS-DOS. And now
the majority platform doesn't have a C:/ prompt in sight.
PLEASE, humor us old Mac fogies and let us have a simple-minded GUI
when we are programming. Won't Apple rescue us by buying CodeWarrior
and getting it so it will build on Macintel? Or sponsor anyone else
willing to do that?
It's not fun to be forced into a program which doesn't work right, and
it doesn't sound like XCode will be a suitable replacement for CW
within the next 6 months.
Dennis Kolva
Programming Director
Turtle Creek Software
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