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Oh, come on. http://i.imgur.com/8uL8M.png http://i.imgur.com/8uL8M.png vs http://cl.ly/IjBC http://cl.ly/IjBC http://i.imgur.com/2Kn4j.png http://i.imgur.com/

• jmduke 14y ago
  You honestly think this was accidental and there's only one way to make an IDE? I honestly don't know. I don't use any IDE on a regular basis. Judging by the relative quality of your screenshots, you use XCode -- is it possible that you'd be able to point out such similarities between any two IDEs, given the presumption that one IDE must be copying from another due to a current lawsuit?
  • katabatic 14y ago
    > is it possible that you'd be able to point out such similarities between any two IDEs Not down to the level of design elements that appear to have been copied here. As someone who does use XCode, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and PyCharm all on a regular basis, I can tell you that they all look very distinct visually. They all have pretty much the same feature set, but they're absolutely distinguishable at a glance visually. It is definitely not inevitable that IDEs look the same. Interestingly, the Samsung IDE is a Windows application. The standard practice would be to match the look and feel of the native platform the IDE runs on, but that is clearly not the case here.
  • jonhendry 14y ago
    "is it possible that you'd be able to point out such similarities between any two IDEs" Most IDEs (Delphi, Eclipse, VS, VB) look a lot like VS & VB. That seems to be the template most often. Xcode, having roots at NeXT, has always been a bit different, UI-wise. It has similar functions, presented in different ways, sometimes significantly different.
• achamayou 14y ago
  But the scrollbars and widgets are not even similar, neither are the fonts, the color pickers or anything worth talking about... The only similarity seems to be blue-grayish tones, and possibly gradients (although the jpgs of the Samsung IDE are too blurry to really tell). Surely you're not talking about the drag and drop grid either, which was around years before Apple even made IDEs. There are plenty of lazy carbon-copied Mac themes for Windows and whatnot, this isn't even close, it's just yet another IDE with color tones that are vaguely similar to XCode (maybe ? how many windows apps aren't gray/blue these days ?).
  • jonhendry 14y ago
    You're missing the forest for the trees.
    • dguaraglia 14y ago
      Or maybe it's you missing the trees for the grass leaves? Seriously though, most IDEs (and CAD and graphic design packages for that matter) have looked very similar to those screenshots. Fuck, if we were to 'condem' every other IDE in windows using the same icon set and toolbox/tabset styles as Visual Studio, then most of them are 'carbon copies' (let's forget for a minute most of those IDEs use the OS-provided controls.) This is really starting to sound like nitpicking by some Apple fanboys. The fact this even makes it to Hacker News kind of pisses me off.
• jack-r-abbit 14y ago
  IMO, I don't think any of your "vs" go beyond normal "similar features" of any IDE... certainly nowhere near "carbon-copied". They don't even share the same icon set or rounded-ness. If I were a juror and I was given those as evidence, I would vote "not guilty".
  • jonhendry 14y ago
    Is there another IDE other than Xcode whose widget palette shows an icon and a lengthy textual description like that?
    • jack-r-abbit 14y ago
      Dunno. But if that is all you got... I still say not guilty. While those two are similar... they are not the same. The icons, the fonts, the colors... pretty much everything about the look and feel is different except they both use an icon and a detailed description... in that one small portion of the whole IDE. Similar? a little. Carbon-copied? not even close. not guilty.
• bsphil 14y ago
  Those... really don't look as close as you seem to think. Certainly not carbon copies.