On Nov 23, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > But isn't it the way around too? I mean, as far as I know there are no other > IDEs supporting Objective C, so if you love iPhone and Objective C you "have" > to love XCode... right?
In general, I'd say that's true, although a lot of IDEs are meant to support a specific platform (Xcode for Mac/iOS, Visual Whatever for Windows, etc.), so with fewer general-purpose IDEs, you don't see a lot of support for anything but that IDE's designated target. Even NetBeans, while quite the polyglot, is still mostly focused on Java and the JVM languages… does it support Go, for example? Does anything? FWIW, emacs supports Obj-C. Don't laugh -- post-1999, I did substantially all my Java development in emacs, including all the samples for the QTJ and Swing books. Anyways, I get the sense that IDEs have become strategic assets essential to the well being of specific platforms, and are usually developed by those platforms' sponsors and usually given away for free to foster development for that platform. IDEA, as independent pay-ware, is something of an anachronism here. --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.
