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How about properly supporting developers? I feel like Apple once said "Let's make (force) people to developer for macOS and iOS using our tools.... awesome!" a
by automathematics 8y ago
How about properly supporting developers?
I feel like Apple once said "Let's make (force) people to developer for macOS and iOS using our tools.... awesome!" and in the progress they leveraged a strong UNIX core and command line.
Then developers from other facets (IT, Web Developers, Android) showed up and said "Hmm, command line? I can use that!" And we ended up with a pretty sweet development environment.
But now it's 2019. Where is the package manager? Where are the regular security patches to stuff like OpenSSL? Where is the "Xcode Lite" to compete with Atom/VSCode even?
If Apple gave a shit about developers as a whole (and maybe purchases Homebrew as the official package manager?) they would continue their dominance in schools and tech. But they don't seem to have much interest in that.... (Remember "New macbook pro without an escape key! Pro's don't need 32gb ram!" debacle?) it's exactly the right time for someone else to step up with a programmer focused platform.
(Perhaps https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/containers_and_vms.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c... ?)
(EDIT: Also relevant for my crazy theory: https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/studio https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/studio)
- ken 8y agoApple is losing dominance in schools because Homebrew is maintained by a third-party? I'm just not seeing it.
- pjmlp 8y agoAccording to ADB Podcast, the large majority of Android developers using Android Studio are on Windows, as per telemetry data. ChromeOS support is irrelevant outside US, as those devices are nowhere to be seen.