From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X

[0roo0roo]

http://arstechnica.com/article...d-learn-from-apple.ars

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Would you like to discuss this or something?

 

[FP]

Good article from a developers perspective.

I recently switched my development box from WinXP to OSX. I am still getting used to it.

 

[Megatomic]

binister, are the coding packages that you can get for Linux for free also available in OS X for free?

 

[Kmax82]

I'm not a developer.. I'm working on learning ColdFusion 8, and Flex, but I don't know much about C, or any of the other native OS level languages. I did find this article to be quite interesting. I hope that Apple does push Microsoft to go another route with Windows. I used to love Windows back in the day, but it has become stale. Things that I used to struggle to do in Windows, I can now do in OS X and it makes it so much easier. But I mainly want to see MS come back with a vengeance, so that Apple doesn't sit on its laurels and not update OS X. I don't foresee that happening, but you never know.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
binister, are the coding packages that you can get for Linux for free also available in OS X for free?

What coding packages do you mean? Also, check out XCode, it is free, made by Apple, and is what pretty much all Apple Devs use

 

[Megatomic]

Thanks Stu. I'll check out XCode. But I was referring to compilers mostly, but also C and C+ environments.

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Thanks Stu. I'll check out XCode. But I was referring to compilers mostly, but also C and C+ environments.

Megatomic... I use Eclipse for everything and I haven't found anything that won't run on my Mac for my work.

In fact, my Mac has way more for the Linux geek inside me than my PC ever did. I used Cygwin on my PC but 95% of the command line apps I use are already included with OSX.

I really wasn't sure about the move over but after taking the plunge it is absolutely worth it.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Thanks Stu. I'll check out XCode. But I was referring to compilers mostly, but also C and C+ environments.

Well, like binister, I too use Eclipse, the only issue with it is that you need to add things to it to expand upon its initial java functionality. XCode on the other hand comes with everything already. Oh yea, and the compilers are, IIRC, built into the OS.

On the other hand, XCode is like 1.3GB, and Eclipse is around 100MB

 

[Megatomic]

I downloaded XCode 3 and installed it tonight. It's a neat package, lots of stuff to do! Thanks for the tip, that's plenty for me to play with for a long time I believe.