Mac development

[Milan Babuskov]

Alfonso De Prisco wrote:
> But, for example, if also a well known command-line-programming-based 
> operating system like Linux SuSE has KDevelop (another C/C++ IDE 
> interfacing with gcc and gdb) it is not because I asked for that. Maybe 
> the demand for that was present.

KDevelop is developed by KDE team. KDE project has a goal to provide a 
clone of Microsoft Windows desktop environment and tools for *nix 
systems. KDevelop is just another piece of that puzzle.

One of the reasons KDE is so popular is that it tries hard to look and 
work like Windows. People coming from Windows, or working simultaneously 
on both platforms appreciate that and they are most numerous. Therefore, 
all major Linux distributions include KDE. To be honest, I'm writing 
this on a computer where I run KDE. Although I love IceWM, it takes too 
much time to set it up, so I only run in on one machine. KDE is for 
people who don't want to read docs just to use the desktop environment, 
and who don't mind if something crashes now and then (gosh, they copy 
Windows too much). Before I go too much off topic, I'll stop here.

But, like you said, everyone should use what they find most suitable for 
themselves. And I agree that gdb sucks (all my Linux apps. have a heavy 
logging facility which is what I actually use for debugging).

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Milan Babuskov
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