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Apple's marketing has increasingly emphasised developer tools for example Xcode. From a developers Point of View (PoV), how does OS X application development and support translate into the real world? Does it compare favourably with other platforms?
Thanks for your time.
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Apple does encourage people to develop software. All the tools you need come free with the OS. There is adequate documentation included for anyone to get started.
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As far as development in general, you get the entire classic Unix toolchain for free, which is a major plus for a commercial OS.
Actual native GUI programming for OSX is not very compelling for cross-platform guys like me though. It's 2005 and they apparently have no answer for the C++ frameworks commonly used on Linux and Windows - either you use Carbon and suffer or you learn ObjC and lose your existing codebase.
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Originally posted by R. Belmont:
Actual native GUI programming for OSX is not very compelling for cross-platform guys like me though. It's 2005 and they apparently have no answer for the C++ frameworks commonly used on Linux and Windows - either you use Carbon and suffer or you learn ObjC and lose your existing codebase. Which cross-platform GUI frameworks are you wanting to use? All the big ones are available for OSX.
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I was thinking more in terms of a native Apple one. In general people don't react well when your app requires 10 megs of Qt or GTK or whatever shared libraries so I usually build platform-native C++ UIs over a common C/C++ core codebase (Audio Overload's UI is MFC on Windows and GTK+/Glade on Linux). As far as I know there's not a similar solution on OSX.
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Originally posted by R. Belmont:
I was thinking more in terms of a native Apple one. In general people don't react well when your app requires 10 megs of Qt or GTK or whatever shared libraries so I usually build platform-native C++ UIs over a common C/C++ core codebase (Audio Overload's UI is MFC on Windows and GTK+/Glade on Linux). As far as I know there's not a similar solution on OSX. Ah, OK - I see what you mean now. The closest thing would probably be PowerPlant X from Metrowerks, which of course isn't Apple-supplied.
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