1/15 can any serious development be done on OSX that is not *for OSX*.
i'll grant that ruby on rails has excellent tutorials for the mac.
discuss:
\_ What kind of serious development? If you want to use the standard
OSX ui then your ui code will be pretty much useless elsewhere,
but that's why concepts like MVC are so important. Otherwise
OSX is pretty much standard unix (with case insensitive files,
grr) and most of your work will be easilly portable.
\_ I agree that case insensitive HFS+ is a pain, but it is
pretty easy to work around it by doing you development on
a UFS or HFS+ case sensitive disk image.
Re original question - I used to do perl, java, & c development
for Solaris & Linux on OS X. As a side effect, my application
for Solaris & Linux on OS X. As a side effect, our application
worked on OSX (but we didn't ship an OS X version) and I was
worked on OS X (but we didn't ship an OS X version) and I was
able to find lots of OS dependencies in our code and abstract
them away, making future porting to other OSes much easier.
\_ you said "used to" does that imply you are not doing them
on OSX now?
\_ I am no longer a programmer (but I still use OS X).
\_ when's the last year you programmed on os x?
10.4 was pretty good. Still dunno what to think about
dashcode. - !op
\_ 2006. I think I was running 10.4, but I can't
remember. I started out using X Code, but it
was really overkill for what I needed b/c our
app was mainly Makefile based and didn't need
all the X Code bells and whistles. Mostly I
was happy using either emacs or TextWrangler.
[ To clarify - I am no longer a professional
programmer, but I still write some c & perl
code for my own use on OS X ]
\_ I assume phone App Store development doesn't count, since the phone
runs OS X |