Re: Accessing function definitions
Re: Accessing function definitions
- Subject: Re: Accessing function definitions
- From: Turtle Creek Software <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
> Granted, we'd
> like to see Apple loosen the purse strings and really bring it up to
> the level of a top-notch, Mac-like development environment, but it is
> what it is and they don't generate any revenue with it, so there you
> go. I'm sure the engineers who work on it do the best they can given
> their time constraints and resources.
Since Apple folks often view this list, I'd like to strongly disagree
with this notion that it's fine for XCode to be mediocre.
Apple, one way or another, generates almost ALL of its future Macintosh
revenues from XCode. Maybe not directly in the form of product sales,
but in future hardware sales that result from the software produced by
us developers.
Have a productive and easy-to-use programming environment, and you'll
get programmers spending time and producing innovative new software.
Have a clunky, difficult set of tools, and you'll gradually lose the
most creative programmers. They will find some other environment where
they can get results more quickly and less painfully.
There have been some great development environments for the Mac, in
their time. I'd rate Think C/Think Pascal and CodeWarrior that way.
Apple's development tools (with the exception of HyperCard) have
generally been blah to meh in quality. They have usually been just
strong enough to make the good stuff unprofitable, so it goes away.
I'ts really too bad. Apple seems good at developing great consumer
software, but not so much for developer tools.
Dennis Kolva
Turtle Creek Software
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