News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad. Parent comment

Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by ryanSrich on Friday April 17, 2015 @12:25AM (#9392260)
Really? You're going to pick out Xcode out of the whole list? I even clearly stated what the most important app I use is and it wasn't Xcode.

...however, if you're developing iOS and OSX apps you need Xcode. So I'm not sure what your point is.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by numbermess on Friday April 17, 2015 @01:22AM (#9392389)
XCode is a pretty good choice for writing Mac applications. I'm not aware of many accepted alternatives.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by rimantas on Friday April 17, 2015 @01:57AM (#9392456)
There really is only one–AppCode, and not really an alternative, because usually you end up using both.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by piyush_soni on Friday April 17, 2015 @01:40AM (#9392420)
My point is that you can really come out of these forced incompatibilities if you want. There are multiple IDEs to develop the same thing on Windows, but of course, Apple does not want that. That's why, the author of the article had to leave developing for them - in my very personal opinion, everyone should do that, in the hope that it will force Apple to strive for a common/universal development language.
[ Parent | on HN ]