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Alternative Development Systems for the Mac
Carlos Camacho writes "Programmers new to the Mac platform, as well as newbie Mac coders often ask (or complain) about available development tools. Most often, Apple's Xcode is recommended since it is free, and a pretty slick package. For cross-platform work, Metrowerks CodeWarrior series has been with us since the early PowerPC days, and is very flexible in its support for multi-platforms. But with if you want to work in a language other than Objective-C,C, C++ or Java? Or learn an entirely new language? How does the Macintosh fare? iDevGames, a site devoted to Mac game developers, has put together a list of "alternative" development tools for Mac OS X. A good number of the tools listed are either free, or low-cost. So, if you're interested in playing around with Lua, Ruby, something similar to HyperCard, or one of the many BASICs, check out "Alternative Development Systems for the Mac.""
... shame the article was about platforms for game development (-;
Agreed however if your market is for basic-style apps (where Visual Basic is thrown in today), real basic looks quite polished (although I didn't see anything regardsing Linux ...).
I predict that in a few years time we'll learn that xCode secretly embeds spy-code to harvest key logs and other user data. This secret code will be activated April 1st in the year 2006 and upload all collected data to Apple's iTunes division. The harvested data will allow Apple to create THE killer song for your iPod, which by then will interact directly with you brain. This song will control you and bend your listening ways to the financial gain of Apple. 7 days later Bungie will buy Microsoft and release a version of Windows that is really amazing, but doesn't let you finish any documents or loading of web pages. Finally, Bill Gates will reveal himself as demon spawn from Bizaro world come to our world to spread flowers. Having gained control of the world's iPod listening consumers, Apple will return to the alternate dimension to deploy their iTunes Kenny G Music Store. Unfortunately, it's overrated, cliched, and lacking in table manners.
You have been warned.
-- i am jack's amusing sig file
It costs $700. I have to eat you know.
Sadly, I find Flash so irritating, both in for creating full websites and its use for advertisements, that I uninstalled the plug-in.
Jeez. But you forgot to tell us how good Ogg is.
In addition, Python users are often as fanatical as mac users, and end up pushing python into inappropriate uses
.. .such as, oh, say, Google? ;-)
Inappropriate uses
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