Re:Safari is the new IE
by jfim on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @09:58AM
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It's not as if it's the first time Apple does it either. They positioned OS X as the best platform to run Java, yet ditched it a couple of years later. Even back then, people were complaining about it [0].
Developing on Mac has always been a chore (at least back in the XCode 1.1 and 2.0 days), with poorly documented APIs and APIs that are just flat out broken (OpenGL comes to mind, and is still broken to this day apparently).
Our running joke back then was that "Macs are very user friendly, except developers don't count as users." Still true to this day apparently.
Developing on Mac has always been a chore (at least back in the XCode 1.1 and 2.0 days), with poorly documented APIs and APIs that are just flat out broken (OpenGL comes to mind, and is still broken to this day apparently).
Our running joke back then was that "Macs are very user friendly, except developers don't count as users." Still true to this day apparently.
[0] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=13058