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> Back then, if you wanted to develop a program for a Commodore 64, you bought a Commodore 64. For testing, yes. To protect their sanity, developers of big pro

> Back then, if you wanted to develop a program for a Commodore 64, you bought a Commodore 64. For testing, yes. To protect their sanity, developers of big projects developed their code using rented CPU minutes on a mainframe. Maybe apple should provide pay-by-the-minute xcode-as-a-service for the real 1980s feeling?

myself248 8y ago
Could you provide such a service? There certainly seem to be enough developers who complain about this. I wonder if there'd be a market for a virtual-iphone-dev-box-thing.
- geerlingguy 8y ago
  I would imagine that's like 95% of MacStadium's[1] business. Macs-as-a-Service. [1] https://www.macstadium.com https://www.macstadium.com