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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by krzyk on Saturday November 03, 2012 @03:09AM (#4736107)
"You buy a Mac and you get a fantastic IDE and development platform for free, etc."

Buy a Mac to hack on iPhone? I don't think that any IDE is so costly if you develop on any other phone.

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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by drewmclellan on Saturday November 03, 2012 @03:59AM (#4736160)
Just for reference, a quick search reveals that MS VisualStudio can be purchased "from £502" (UK) and a new Mac mini starts at £499.
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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by TsiCClawOfLight on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:12AM (#4736181)
Eclipse and android SDK?
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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by drewmclellan on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:48AM (#4736225)
Of course. The comment was "I don't think that any IDE is so costly if you develop on any other phone".

That said, I'd happily pay £500 to not have to use Eclipse, but each to their own.

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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by tripzilch on Sunday November 04, 2012 @06:24AM (#4739495)
> That said, I'd happily pay £500 to not have to use Eclipse, but each to their own.

You must have gotten a lot of pocket money when you were 14, then.

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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by NicoJuicy on Saturday November 03, 2012 @06:39AM (#4736341)
Or you use Visual Studio Express C# which is free. Visual Studio (payed) combines all tools, all languages together and works with git, sourcesafe and many, many things more.

Or if you're a startup, you can receive all Windows stuff for free ;) (so you don't have to pay)

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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by omegant on Saturday November 03, 2012 @10:09AM (#4736627)
That's interesting! How can you get all the visual studio for free if you are a start up?
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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by Jare on Saturday November 03, 2012 @12:03PM (#4736902)
I think he's referring to the BizSpark program: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
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Re:Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my fi... by omegant on Saturday November 03, 2012 @03:54PM (#4737690)
Thank you.
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