September 08, 2003
A look at XCode: Apple's Answer to Visual Studio. I'm unlikely to use it anytime soon, but it looks pretty cool. This tickled my fancy:
Distributed builds. Using Apple’s Rendezvous networking, a workstation will check for other compilation workstations on the network that can build some of the needed modules. If it finds any, it ships the code over and awaits the return files
Nifty. And even cooler: it comes "free" with the operating system.
But I don't do development where XCode would be useful, certainly not on my mac. So I'll most likely fire it up, play with it a bit, and never look at it again. Kinda like I did with Project Builder. Great stuff; I just have no immediate use for it.
I'm on the verge of switching to Eclipse, though, especially as it looks like I'll soon be using Java at work. About damn time. With EPIC (Perl plugins for Eclipse) and PHPEclipse (I give you one guess what that is), I'm about set.
