Le 25 juil. 2011 à 09:47, vincent habchi a écrit : > Well, I wouldn’t want to throw more oil on the fire, as the French saying > goes, but, in my opinion, this looks like tycoons arguing about the color of > their Ferraris or which Bordeaux grand cru (or whatever else).
Xcode is a tool we have to use all the day. This is not just a luxury product we don't need at all. > I used to be a Unix (NetBSD) developer, coding with vi(m), and managing > projects with the BSD make, and so forth (I also used Qt3/4-Designer) – I > still do that when fixing code for the "ports" I’m responsible of. I can > insure you whatever flaws there may be in this or that version of Xcode, it > is still a great coding environment: no need to keep track of methods or > compilation errors on a separate sheet of paper, autocompletion is great, > etc. And IB is also way ahead QT-Designer, for example. > > I understand ease of development is important; but what count most (IMO, > always) is what the users think about your product. And Xcode UI has > definitely no impact on this: Compiler and OS do. Even with the most > beautiful and useful UI, a perfect code going through a compiler that insert > thousand of useless assembler lines and a buggy OS is going to lead to a > disastrous experience. With LLVM, Apple engineers have accomplished an > amazing job of modernizing GCC and MacOS is a great OS to work on. That alone > should make everybody happy. > Nice to know you don't care about how much time it take to code this great product you're talking about. When I spend much of my time fighting with the IDE, I can't be happy though. And FWIW, I don't care about which compiler version is sold with Xcode 4, it always lack behind my nightly build of clang I'm using in Xocde 3 for some time now. -- Jean-Daniel _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
