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> gives X Code away for free Free with the purchase of Apple hardware. Not exactly "free," is it? VS Code works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
by naikrovek 8y ago
> gives X Code away for free
Free with the purchase of Apple hardware. Not exactly "free," is it?
VS Code works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
- pier25 8y agoNobody gives hardware for free.
- naikrovek 8y ago> Nobody gives hardware for free. Correct. And Apple artificially requires that you have a Mac to develop software for Mac or iOS. Not even Microsoft does that. I can compile for Windows on any platform.
- pier25 8y agoSo, are complaining about the economical factor or an ideological one?
- throwaway8121 8y agoXcode is the successor to Project Builder, the development environment for NeXT. It is written in Objective-C and AppKit. Xcode was designed for writing Mac apps, why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway? It's only after the iPhone that the question of a port to other platforms has arisen. But that would be a huge task equivalent to a full rewrite. Even Apple doesn't have the resources to pull that off smoothly.
- naikrovek 8y ago> why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway? There are many reasons. I was going to list a few, but ehh. If you want to know you can probably ask Google or StackOverflow.