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Great, so all someone needs to do is make a decent Cocoa IDE (don't forget Instruments and an iOS simulator!) and give it away for free. Problem solved.

• rbanffy 16y ago
  > Great, so all someone needs to do is make a decent Cocoa IDE You can start from here: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/DeveloperTools.html http://www.gnustep.org/experience/DeveloperTools.html
  • Zev 16y ago
    Not so much if you want to do any iOS work.
    • msbarnett 16y ago
      If doing iOS work isn't worth five dollars to you, than how much you can be said to "want" to do it is up for debate.
      • biot 16y ago
        I get the impression everybody is preaching to the choir here for the most part.
• kjksf 16y ago
  Yes, the solution to you not willing to pay $5 is for someone else to invest hundrends of thousands of dollars (at programmer's market pay) to re-implement XCode. I do develop open-source software (SumatraPDF) and give it away for free, but this kind of attitude of entitlement always gets me.
  • jarin 16y ago
    My point exactly. Although if someone really does want to re-implement Xcode, more power to them I say! Me, I'll pay the 5 bucks.
    • vandahm 16y ago
      This is a lot harder than just paying $4.99 for Xcode, but I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt GNUstep's developer tools to Cocoa development.
      • stcredzero 16y ago
        How about a bunch of us pay $5 to do that? Kickstarter project?
• oemera 16y ago
  JetBrains is working on an IDE for Cocoa developer and guess what it wont cost 5 bucks thats for sure. http://www.jetbrains.com/cidr/ http://www.jetbrains.com/cidr/