Re: Opening a Counterpart File in a SEPARATE Window
Re: Opening a Counterpart File in a SEPARATE Window
- Subject: Re: Opening a Counterpart File in a SEPARATE Window
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 11:09:22 -0700
With XCode being more-or-less free, how can anyone else compete? Basically you have a no-so-good app that costs next to nothing verses something that would cost around $500 per annum.
IIRC, MPW was free at the time CodeWarrior came out. And that $500/year figure is arbitrary. AppCode looks like it’s between $90–$200 a year. Sublime Text is about $80, one-time. TextMate is free.
If you’re this unhappy about Xcode, it seems like you’d be willing to pay for a better IDE. (I certainly would, if there were one that I thought was significantly better.) And if Xcode’s problems are as obvious as you say, than many people must feel the same way you do and would do the same. But even if someone did produce a viable app, they be at the mercy of Apple and if don’t want to play ball then its game-abandoned.
Not really. The toolchain up through the linker is open source. The bits that are secret-sauce, primarily code signing and uploading to iOS devices, have CLI interfaces, and if Apple took those away they’d royally piss off large developers who rely on them for build automation and automated testing.
—Jens |
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