On Oct 15, 6:05 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > ya, XCode is a joke.
Maybe that's why they see an opportunity, presumably for a commercial product. Maybe they can get more Mac/iPhone developers to pay for an IDE than they can in the Java world, given the competition from the FOSS (and quite good) NetBeans and Eclipse. Guess I need to listen to the podcast later today and get more info about where this leaves IDEA going forward. > On Oct 15, 3:38 pm, Chris Herron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From the interview (JavaPosse #283) Roman mentions at the 7 minute > > mark: > > "We are also working on an IDE for ... Objective-C" > > > Very interesting. I don't think this could enable iPhone development > > on Linux/Windows. However, developers who came from Java+IntelliJ to > > do iPhone/Mac development in Xcode will probably be excited about > > this. Actually, letting you build Mac/iPhone apps from Linux or Windows would be highly desirable for developers who don't want to buy a Mac and perhaps a viable business for JetBrains. We know cross- compilation works, and Mac/iPhone .app bundles are just folders with a specific structure, so the big unknown would be if they could do the app-signing stuff to get an app onto the phone for testing without Apple's approval or participation (or if they'd try to build a Mac/ iPhone emulator for Lin/Win, an extraordinary undertaking). -Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
