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macOS Which Programming Environment do you use?
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Confused? not sure what that means. But i use Xcode. Sucks for C coding sometimes. Cuase it doesn't contain all the libraries, but its pretty nice and simple.
Another vote for XCode. I use it for Objective-C/Cocoa development, as well as the occasional C program. It works well for both, although it is obviously primarily designed for Objective-C/Cocoa development. If you want to do Java, Eclipse is probably the way to go (although XCode does support Java).
I use XCode because it's free and still pretty hearty. and because I find having to build and maintain make files a bit tedious (but something I should get better at doing).
Though I try to do most of my actual coding using vim because my productivity increases by a whole lot when i can do hugely complex things (that would require lots of cut-paste/editing tools in XCode) with just a few keystrokes. Although this has the downside that I try to use vim movement commands in XCode when I'm fixing errors/bugs.
Though I try to do most of my actual coding using vim because my productivity increases by a whole lot when i can do hugely complex things (that would require lots of cut-paste/editing tools in XCode) with just a few keystrokes. Although this has the downside that I try to use vim movement commands in XCode when I'm fixing errors/bugs.
Xcode works fine for most things on Mac OS X, but I don't care to use it for Java. However, it supports C, C++, and Objective-C very well.
Visual C++ style development hasn't been duplicated on Mac OS X but if you use Xcode for Objective-C, you'll find it's just as productive.
Visual C++ style development hasn't been duplicated on Mac OS X but if you use Xcode for Objective-C, you'll find it's just as productive.
X-Code does me fine for Java servlet development. For support tools that need to run on Windows I use RealBasic. That's the boring stuff, for the fun stuff I use X-Code and Objective C++. I can't wait for the promised code folding feature of X-Code 3.
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I use Xcode as well. Or rather, I'm learning programming on Xcode. I love it, it makes learning programming very fun...at least to me.
I like to use Smultron for coding, and I compile either via the Terminal or using CPP Edit. I'm still using Smultron 1.2.7 it's a great, lightweight, no-frills text editor. 
Actionscript (does that count?
Wouldn't Flash being the programming environment and ActionScript the (scripting) language used?
XCode. For the second poster. What libraries out of the standard ones required for ANSI and ISO certification does GCC not have?
Wouldn't Flash being the programming environment and ActionScript the (scripting) language used?
oh, ok, Flash it is
I think they meant that the libraries aren't available for auto-complete type tools...