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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by zamalek on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:30AM (#13801228)
> Microsoft is really trying with developers and it's readily apparent.

Which has been their approach for a very long time - let's not forget that Ballmer speech. From what I have heard, Apple puts minimal effort into XCode; the iPhone lead dev here was throwing around all forms of cuss words trying to get CI set up.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by deminature on Monday March 06, 2017 @06:35AM (#13802029)
XCode is a sometimes excellent, sometimes shaky experience, still far ahead of Android Studio until the past 6 months or so. The API design of iOS is also still second to none, and part of the reason I continue to develop for Apple platforms. I use XCode Server for CI without issue, another team uses Jenkins happily. Apple's hardware can be fairly neglected, but the experience of being a developer in their ecosystem is still very pleasant overall.
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