Well--Apples are not that unfriendly to developers. They are not all the friendly though either.
On Apple, they have access to Obj-C, Mono, C and C++. OSX also is a fork of FreeBSD... however a friend of mine is quote as say "OSX was once BSD, like the Orcs were once Elves." Apple Computers is one of the main pushers of WebKit which is one of the most highly supportive web renders for the current standard set. Apple has also been known to interact and deal with the KDE product--as well as a few other FlOSS projects. As tenchically, Webkit is a KDE project. Add to that, OSX is the choice OS to talk with IPhone, iTouch, iPad and the iPod. We also have the graphics, design and film users mostly using Apples. The only reason that you do not get as many of the developers as say on Linux/BSD is because Apple Hardware is insanely expensive. Myself, if I could afford it, I would be buying Apples like nothing else. You also get the REALLY insane people talking about Hackintoshes. Never mind the constant rumours for the past few years on the idea of the iConsole. That is, possibly Apple Computers entering into the gaming console market. Now--we have Steam and a Mac Source API. *looks around* Oh right, now to add something else just as crazy as the rest of this: "there is a fork in MAH EAR!" Meh--I wish I could get my head out of the clouds and back into reality. ~Katrina On Friday, June 11, 2010 08:16:02 pm Keeper wrote: > Thinking about this ... how much development do people think will happen on > macs? In the school/academic world, it makes sense because of the > availability to larger groups of macs. In the real world, however, most > people who code don't use macs. Is that trend changing? I'm not a mac > hater, I just know in the business world they aren't generally used for > this. > > As far as moving the steam platform to mac, that makes total sense. Outside > of advertising/art departments macs are known as being home computers. > > Just wondering if it makes sense from a developers standpoint. > > Keeper > > -----Original Message----- > From: Byron Mallett [mailto:byrona...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:23 PM > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Source Engine 2!!! > > I've managed to get my course coordinator for my Digital media course quite > interested in the possibilities of Source modding as something to add to our > Mac lab. Now all we need is an SDK to play around with. :D _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
