Comments on: XCode 3.0, a Great Developer Additon

By: Dom

Dom — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:53:07 +0000

I love what Apple has done with XCode but I cannot believe that they are still investing in Objective-C, a rather ugly language with so many convoluted syntax constructs when they had C++! Remove the destructor and add garbage collector, that is all they had to do to accomplish EXACTLY the same thing. Why use C and a list of preprocessor macros using [] and # and - operators when these operators are already used by the C language! Ambiguous + old C?

The next step would be to get rid of the include files like Java. And that would be a rich and elegant OO language to be proud of.

All the terrific interface building capabilities wasted because of Objective-C!

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:57:26 +0000

My buddy got back from WWDC and the first thing we did was take Leopard and Xcode 3.0 for a test drive. Apple has ADC so developers get ‘early access’ to the OS and developer tools, right? So if you really want access to Xcode 3 right now, it’s only $500 away, plus you can recoup much of the cost in the hardware discount coupon.

By: ken ken

ken ken — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:51:37 +0000

Will the new xcode include something like a TextMate?

By: dan

dan — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:43:49 +0000

just pay 500 dollars for their SELECT dev membership and run leopard now. ib 3.0 is now cleaned up.

By: Dane

Dane — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:37:14 +0000

Is this cool thing gonna have a windows version? if not is there a windows version of somethign like this for people that are stuck wit windowss? :’(

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:47:53 +0000

I hope it has greater support for Java GUI creation like Cocoa has.

Many will say use this tool or that tool. But im a person that likes to stick with one IDE for all my programming, cocoa, carbon and java.

By: Rick Martinez

Rick Martinez — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:55:28 +0000

I’m extremely excited. I really don’t want to have to wait until Spring of ‘07 though!

By: leopard

leopard — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:28:38 +0000

XCode will be available to anyone having access to the betas of Leopard since they’re going to have to be able to make their programs work on Leopard. But as for the rest of us we’ll have to wait until Leopard is released to get it legally.

By: Pat Alessi

Pat Alessi — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:21:58 +0000

Hopefully they will add design capabilities to the Object Modeller. It’s pretty useless only having a read only view into your object model. If they added roundtrip modelling, the tool would actually be useful!

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:30:12 +0000

While I agree waiting until next year is disappointing, I don’t see any choice for Apple. Two of the three points you listed are going to require Leopard; the last (snapshots) could be done without, but I’m sure Apple will leverage new APIs.

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Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:52:55 +0000

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By: Adam Betts

Adam Betts — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:55:04 +0000

I would kill for some screenshots of Interface Builder 3.0. Current IB is pretty pathetic and I’m hoping 3.0 will be much cleaner/easier to use.

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:13:52 +0000

Maybe the Developer Preview includes XCode 3.0.

I’m guessing they would need it to try out some of the new features in the Preview build.

By: Applesfera

Applesfera — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:51:26 +0000

[WWDC'06] Xcode 3.0…

En la conferencia de ayer en la WWDC se mencionó de pasada una adición importante para Leopard, el nuevo Xcode 3.0. Para los desarrolladores, los auténticos protagonistas de la WWDC, Xcode 3.0 es una especie de bendición a la que, no obstante, ten…

By: ths

ths — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:33:01 +0000

Oh man… the memory managemetn makes me so damn happy! That was my only gripe about obj-c.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:06:50 +0000

I don’t think it’s possible to release XCode 3.0 before Leopard. Having a new Objective-C runtime and development environment is something that may or may not be possible to just drop into the operating system. Plus, how could you test applications that have Leopard features like Core Animation and the fancy transition effects without having Leopard to test it with?

My guess is Leopard will also have significant under-the-hood changes that XCode 3 will be able to hook into, and Apple won’t let the cat out of the bag by releasing XC3 before Leopard.

By: Daniel Brauer

Daniel Brauer — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:54:42 +0000

I really hope Xcode 3 is released before Leopard. I’m looking forward to almost all of its features, and it would be a shame if Mac users had to wait until spring for developers to even begin using all these enhancements.