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Re:Visual Studio for Mac Preview by vetinari on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:27PM (#12969833)
At the time, nobody really used MPW, maybe except Apple. Mostly Metrowerks CodeWarrior was used.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac Preview by porsupah on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:21PM (#12972567)
Not /strictly/ nobody - the 3DO version of The 11th Hour was crafted under MPW, using Norcroft C. But yes, CodeWarrior certainly dominated, particularly as the 90s closed.
Re:Visual Studio for Mac Preview by vetinari on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:21AM (#12976118)
Obviously, I meant Joel Spolky's definition of "nobody" - Please understand that I'm talking about large trends here, and therefore when I say things like "nobody" I really mean "fewer than 10,000,000 people," and so on and so forth.

Strictly speaking wrt this definition, if MPW had 10M users, it would be a runaway success. But nobody cared, even when it became free.

Re:Visual Studio for Mac Preview by robterrell on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:16PM (#12973932)
If you used MacApp, you had to use MPW! I worked for a company where the president read an article about MacApp and as a result made us switch to MacApp. I learned valuable lessons in how to never ship software from that company.