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Following with true OOP, all of the core functionalities are mix in. If you want drag and drop in a window class, your window class simply inherits from LWindow and LDragAndDrop... Messaging is well defined, and window creation is extremly simple. (Made simpler because of resources on a macintosh)

Moreover, all of the framework code is very easy to see and fairly well organized. I would love to see a framework such as this attached on top of a good multiplatform underpinnning. While GTK and QT go a long way to improve straightup X11 programming, there is still a great deal of room for a really well written application framework.

If you like VC++ then I bet you would love CodeWarrior from Metrowerks. I think project management is way better and the overall modeless interface is simply refreshing. The downloadable demo doesn't do it justice (release 3). Release 5 came out a few weeks ago, and there's a Linux version also - if you get an opportunity definitely try it out. Oh .. and go Borland.

What Linux needs is more developers. It has a never-ending thirst for them. The more you get, the more gems you get, the more likely the tough, killer apps, drivers, and infrastructure are developed.

well i think the third-party tools developers are also hoping for this as well. not long after the Linux is Not Red Hat (red-hat/codewarrior) article, i got an email from mark of metroworks customer service asking a few questions and agreed to a comment i made about the 'new breed' of application developers that will eventually flood linux.

... linux distributions such as 'rh', suse and caldera (and i single these distro's out because they are targeting the business market..) gain more market share the developers will more likely be 'application-developers' rather than the traditional hard core system hackers typified by the comment, 'true coders used Debian and Slackware'....

it was good to read another ddt rant (informative and easy to read with a bit of a chuckle)..things got pretty boring on finger.planetquake after he left.

It uses gcc instead of their own compiler. Check their website.

I don't have the Linux version, but I would imagine that it would look very similiar to their Solaris version. Both are running under X Windows

http://www.metrowerks.com/desktop/solaris/tour.stm

While some of the older X86 releases of CodeWarrior did have some problems, code generated by the latest release Flies! They really made a lot of drastic improvements. Take a look here for benchmark info.
PC Week also has some benchmark info...

Or, try it yourself - get the demo version and some benchmarks and give it a shot...

While some of the older X86 releases of CodeWarrior did have some problems, code generated by the latest release Flies! They really made a lot of drastic improvements. Take a look here for benchmark info.
PC Week also has some benchmark info...

Or, try it yourself - get the demo version and some benchmarks and give it a shot...

Metrowerks CodeWarrior, for the MacOS, will do inline PPC Asm. Motorola also made something of the sort, apparently, but its difficult to locate. Might wanna call the boys in Pheonix up and ask them.

As for doing assembly for Linux/PPC, I'd ask the guys working on that project, or sniff around in their mailing list archives.

Metrowerks is making one. It will do C, C++, and Java. It is not open source though.

http://www.metrowerks.com/advert/001/

BTW, I think the Mac version will compile Java into binaries. The Win9x/NT version could also but I haven't messed around with it as much.

--karrots

It's a done deal. Metrowerks, who were instrumental in the shift from 68K to PPC, acquired the Latitude libraries from a company named Latitude Co or something.

Bottom line: You can port Mac apps to Unix, including Rhapsody (of course) and possibly Linux.

After looking around, I can't find its official page on Metrowerks' site.