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Developer is a weird string choice though, why not Development or Code. It would be like MS naming its product VS Coder (lol)

• threeseed 4y ago
  It appears to be a relic from the NeXT days. If you look at the video [1] you can see it installing developer tools into the NeXTDeveloper and NeXTLibrary folders. So it's quite possible Apple just did a find/replace and removed the prefix. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMh0WsLZZVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMh0WsLZZVY
  • mattl 4y ago
    Earlier versions of Mac OS X would install the development tools in /Developer on the hard drive too.
    • eddieroger 4y ago
      Right - it was more like Utilities than Documents. A folder for a type of app that not every user needed, not for documented created for a purpose.
• eru 4y ago
  Compare: the Scheme language was supposed to be called Schemer, but filename length limitations back then prevailed.
  • teddyh 4y ago
    As was Forth – it indended name was “Fourth”.
• anon20230209 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior
• grishka 4y ago
  Some older versions of Xcode installed themselves and SDKs and other developer tools into /Developer. All that stuff lives in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer now.
• EugeneOZ 4y ago
  /usr is ok, so /Developer is also ok