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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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