Well you can choose to install the console toolchain from the XCode dmg so you don't waste 15GB. Also what do you mean by "spend a decent amount of time install

Well you can choose to install the console toolchain from the XCode dmg so you don't waste 15GB. Also what do you mean by "spend a decent amount of time installing xcode"? 5 minutes? 10? Whoa, not a big deal. Anyway I fully agree that apple should be very quick in releasing a free downloadable compiler toolchain and charge only for the IDE.