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> And in a few years I think that will change, Swift will change it! The compilers for Swift and Objective-C are command-line tools that are (relatively) easy
by gurkendoktor 10y ago
> And in a few years I think that will change, Swift will change it!
The compilers for Swift and Objective-C are command-line tools that are (relatively) easy to port to Linux.
But for a real iOS dev environment or CI server you'll need the iPhone Simulator, which is built on a large stack of proprietary frameworks. I don't see Apple porting it to other platforms anytime soon.
The trivial fix would be to allow virtualisation of OS X on commodity hardware.
- runamok 10y agoYeap. Afaik you are not even allowed to virtualize OS X on an OS X server. If you could I'd assume AWS et al would do so for CI and such.
- ianlevesque 10y agoThis is false
- runamok 10y agoFair enough. It appears my knowledge is outdated and perhaps was true with an older version of OS X. http://superuser.com/questions/904884/is-it-possible-to-run-mac-os-x-in-a-virtual-machine http://superuser.com/questions/904884/is-it-possible-to-run-... On the other hand Apple makes virtually no hardware that would be a good fit for a datacenter with many VMs on powerful multiprocessor hardware available in a compact form factor.