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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by kitsunesoba on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:15PM (#12332538)
Interface Builder remained nearly unchanged all the way up until Project Builder turned into Xcode and shortly after IB got blended in. Here's a screenshot from IB under OS X 10.2: https://cl.ly/0J1g1p1m0T3C

I personally liked the two being separate applications. IB is still great today, but it (and Xcode) slowed down noticeably when the two combined.

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by protomyth on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:32PM (#12333235)
It was so much easier to fire up interface builder and build something to play around with ideas than the all-in-one Xcode must define a project of today.

I think anytime I have to create a project in any software, it adds a wall of ceremony that just keep adding more layers. It's the difference between QuickTime Pro and iMovie for editing.

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by meddlepal on Monday August 22, 2016 @12:21AM (#12334086)
I had almost forgotten about the horrendous horizontal pinstripes in early OS X. Looking back it's hard to understand why people drooled over the early OS X UI.
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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by hayksaakian on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:29AM (#12334301)
does this have something to do with rendering on CRTs? How they draw horizontal lines?
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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by sho_hn on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:39AM (#12334332)
No, nothing.
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