Wow. Xcode and Leopard are going to be better! Xcode now apparently does PHP and Ruby and Rails in addition to XHTML and CSS. Let’s just hope they stole a lot of keyboard shortcuts from TextMate… Can’t wait to get my hands on this cat.
And, unlike Microsoft and Windows, it’s all freely included in OS X 10.5 Leopard !
How can anybody say that Macs are more expensive, when all the dev tools are free !?
I know Windows dev tools are anything but free, and no way they’ve ever been this cool.
One thing I’ve always wanted: syntax highlighting that actually shows scope!
Looks like Objective-C 2.0 has borrowed a bit from Ruby! Those Apple engineers, they just kick ass at making good stuff with end-users in mind.
Learn more at:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/developer/
Oh, and let’s hope that the inclusion of PHP and Ruby and Rails means that those tools will be updated regularly (or at least update-able ). After all, web software changes rapidly, and with the impending releases of Ruby 2.0 and Rails 2.0 in the next few months to a year, we can’t just have a one-time installation. We will need the ability to update gems and such.
Now all we can ask for is that Apple gets into making it better for developers who want to make games for the Mac. Investing in some game libraries (cross-platform…?) or even say Nintendo (the two companies would be soooo beautiful together…)…?
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I suggested this kind of syntax highlighting to Apple about 6 months ago. I bet I was not the only one, but if so, they used one of my ideas almost directly!
I think I might’ve sent them something like this as well. I was dreaming about it for a while and discussed it with some friends who didn’t get it. I’m sure lots of people thought about it. The idea came to me just from the CSS box model and the way XHTML DOM works.
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