Mac development

[Guy Fawkes]

I agree that XCode is a very poor piece of work from a company which is
famed for its user friendliness. I found that using the command line was
just as easy as using XCode, although I find Visual Studio still to be the
one to beat (even though it's not a great piece of work itself).


"Alfonso De Prisco" <adeprisco at almateq.com> wrote in message
news:452514FB.3020806 at almateq.com...
> Hi list,
>
> I'm wondering how C++ developers do program on a Mac!
>
> We find XCode a very rough environment, moreover when we try to debug a
> middle/large sized project.
>
> We know that CodeWarrior, from Metrowerks, has been the reference IDE
> for many years on Mac, but it seems that they recently discontinued that
> compiler.
>
> So we tried installing Eclipse with C++ plugin on our Mac since we hoped
> that it helped us a bit, but we had no luck again: it seems to miss so
> many functionalities that it is unpractical to be used at all.
>
> Maybe we are too much conditioned by the very expensive M$ Visual C IDE,
> okay but, even with all its bugs, we feel so good with it: we can easely
> browse our projects source files (and classes), put a breakpoint
> everywhere and, after we get the execution paused, we can walk the stack
> list, change the value of a variable, move the execution pointer,
> watch/switch all thread contexts, ...
> All of this looks so familiar to us that we really miss it on other
> platforms.
>
> Does somebody know about a similar (commercial? expensive?) IDE on Mac
> so that we can productively work and debug our software?
>
>
> Any advice very appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Alfonso
>
>
>
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