>From what I see and hear, XCode is almost universally slammed as a horribly crappy dev environment, and the tools on java in general praised.
If eclipse is taken seconds to switch contexts, your computer / JVM / eclipse install is broken. On Nov 23, 3:18 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/11/iphone-android-dev-env > > With the increasing popularity of mobile applications, many people > venture in publishing comparisons of the developer experience in each > environment. About a year ago, David Green published a thorough review > of both environments while John Blanco published last week a > comparative analysis of the iPhone and Android Development > Environments. Both Dave and John agree: > > "using Java is much better than Objective-C. Private methods, inner > classes, > anonymous classes, generics, better function syntax, and a much > wider plethora > of 3rd-party code are just a small smattering of the advantages of > Java. It’s no contest." > > John and Dave disagree on Xcode vs Eclipse: > > [John] "I used to love Eclipse. I could master one IDE and get > benefits for whatever work I do. It’s been over a year since I had to > use Eclipse [...] and coming back has been… …a horrible experience… I > don’t know how it happened. Eclipse is bloated, slow, and the simple > act of changing editor contexts (XML vs. Java vs. Android Manifest, > etc.) is mind-numbing. It takes seconds. [...] it’s making for a > *miserable* experience doing Android work. Contrast this with XCode, > XCode is a delight to work with. It’s sleek, lightning-fast, and I > never see any slowdown when typing in code. I took XCode for granted > for sure. XCode in a landslide." > > [Go to the link for the full article] -- 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.
