Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by naikrovek on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:52PM (#17224192)

> gives X Code away for free

Free with the purchase of Apple hardware. Not exactly "free," is it?

VS Code works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by pier25 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:57PM (#17224487)

Nobody gives hardware for free.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by naikrovek on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:29AM (#17224655)

> Nobody gives hardware for free.

Correct. And Apple artificially requires that you have a Mac to develop software for Mac or iOS.

Not even Microsoft does that. I can compile for Windows on any platform.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by pier25 on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:59PM (#17234110)

So, are complaining about the economical factor or an ideological one?

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by throwaway8121 on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:18AM (#17225607)

Xcode is the successor to Project Builder, the development environment for NeXT. It is written in Objective-C and AppKit.

Xcode was designed for writing Mac apps, why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway?

It's only after the iPhone that the question of a port to other platforms has arisen. But that would be a huge task equivalent to a full rewrite. Even Apple doesn't have the resources to pull that off smoothly.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by naikrovek on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:25PM (#17233560)

> why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway?

There are many reasons. I was going to list a few, but ehh. If you want to know you can probably ask Google or StackOverflow.

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