Yep. OS X fanatics hate anything that doesn't look purely "native." They despise Air and Java....
But is anyone really going to start from scratch and build a purely native IDE competing with XCode? If they do, they have a ton of work ahead of them. It might look native, but it will probably suck. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > What I've heard from people who've tried it is an instinctive aversion > to the UI. There's a cross-platform "UI smell" that Mac zealots have > learned to seek out and destroy dating back to the bad old Swing > days. People want an Xcode competitor to keep Apple honest, > especially given high levels of frustration with Xcode 4, but AppCode > is going to have a hard time even getting a fair shake. > > No, I haven't tried it either. Downloading now. > > --Chris > > On May 19, 11:27 am, Phil Maskell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just seen JetBrains have an EAP of AppCode an Xcode beater for iOS >> developement in Objective Chttp://www.jetbrains.com/objc/. >> >> As I love Intellij I may give this a go. >> >> What are peoples thoughts on how Apple might take this? >> >> Phil > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
