Re: XCode Falls Short - for now
Re: XCode Falls Short - for now
- Subject: Re: XCode Falls Short - for now
- From: Turtle Creek Software <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:41:47 -0800 (PST)
> My main point of
> reference for other IDEs is VisualStudio (and even VB6). Although
> they are not perfect I find myself to be so much more productive in
> those environments than I am in Xcode. For sure, some of this comes
> from familiarity but I have tried to become familiar with Xcode and
> sadly made very slow progress.
I think this "philosophical" discussion of the past few days has been
very helpful for me, just to gauge the state of opinion about XCode.
It appears that many people are quite happy with it, but some people
definitely aren't.
That's not unusual-- people think differently (different?), and/or have
different needs. Members of a 100-person team probably want very
different features than a one-person team. Those with millions of lines
of code have different needs than those with a small widget.
Since XCode is the only game in town, maybe having different "skins" or
preset configurations would be an answer? I'd be quite satisfied if
XCode could look & feel a lot like CW (it's not the app I want to keep,
but the familiar interface). Someone else might prefer a very
different style. That could even be done quickly-- just allow import
of a set of canned prefs that makes XCode as close as possible to CW,
right now.
Is Apple willing to get developers more involved in the tool-design
process? I'm thinking that the fate of us developers is now more
closely entwined with Apple. But eventually, that situation works both
ways.
It's also a bottom-line decision for many of us. My company has
limited time/money resources, and better tools will save us programmer
time/money (and I think $100K/yr $50/hr is a good rule of thumb COST
for a US programmer-- it's not just wages, but also taxes, insurance,
supervision, and subtracting non-programming time).
Right now the cost to modernize our Mac software looks like it will be
more than we'll make back in an acceptible time frame. But tools that
are better for us will shift that equation.
Thanks,
Dennis Kolva
Turtle Creek Software
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