Re: Xcode Development
Re: Xcode Development
- Subject: Re: Xcode Development
- From: Roni Music <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:04:36 +0200
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:00:12 -0600
From: koko <email@hidden>
To: xcode-Users List <email@hidden>
Subject: Xcode Development
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Just curious, where is Xcode developed? India, China, Cupertino, Redmond
or somewhere else?
And who are the developers?
-koko
I’ve been following this list for at least ten years, mostly silent but have
occasionally been asking questions (and being helped). Also at the same time
developing for Windows using Visual Studio 6, 2005, etc now 2010.
Started with CodeWarrior around 2000, “forced” to use Xcode when the Intel
transition started, realized one year later that I had forgot everything
related to CodeWarrior since I started to use Xcode 2 (then 3). Never
thought about that Xcode 3 was different to Visual Studio, it was just two
different programming tools allowing me to create software. Then Xcode 4 was
released and I just felt, NO, not again, I loved Xcode 3.2.6 (with all its
quirks), why change anything all over again? I want to create software, not
learn another programming environment.
As you remember, the Xcode list was flooded with comment about Xcode 4,
mostly negative. So it took a while for me to start using Xcode 4, still
having some older Carbon based apps to maintain. But I found out a way to
have Xcode 3.2.6 working on Lion and that made me start using Xcode 4 (now
4.3.3) to build my iOS apps.
So I switch between Visual Studio 2010, Xcode 3.2.6 and Xcode 4.3.3. In my
opinion, Xcode 4 is a big step forward, it works great, there have been some
crashes (there shouldn’t be but it’s a software created by humans) but in
general it works 100%. For example it never suddenly rebuilds the complete
project (Xcode 3.2.6 does all the time without me asking for it) which for
my C++ template projects takes about five minutes.
As I write this I realize that Xcode 3 and CodeWarrior used the same concept
and Visual Studio and Xcode 4 are more similar (never really thought about
that before since Mac is not Windows and we should "think different" on
Mac). In practice this doesn’t matter, as soon as you start doing your
programming and focus on whatever problem you are trying to solve, the
“programming program” is just a tool that you learn to use (love or hate).
Everything changes and programming life goes on.
Happy user of Xcode 4,
Rolf
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