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Best Developer Tools for OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the carving-out-a-new-home dept.

NoviceW writes to share that there are plenty of interesting articles written about Mac OS X applications for switchers, but not many guides focused on programmers switching from other operating systems. This guide lists a few of the more prominent tools for Mac developers, what other tools can't you do without?

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  1. PHP and professional in the same sentence? by rgravina · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From TFA:
    Whether you are a hobby web designer or a professional developer, MAMP comes in handy when you need to test your product.
    and:
    Zend Studio 5 is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available for professional developers that encompass all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle.

    OK admittedly he/she did metion PHP specificially in the second quote, but they seem to equate "professional developer" with "chooses PHP"! Hah! I had to restart an application I was working on that went from web to client/server with a GUI because PHP just doesn't cut the mustard for anything other that a web guestbook. Even if I did stick with web delivery I was running into problems with PHP (don't get me started on that session crap - oh here's an idea, run your application as a separate process to the web server and keep application state in memory! Maybe theorectically possible with PHP but I've never seen it done.) Basically, it's a joke, and it so much so that it now annoys me to no end when deveopers use "professional" and "PHP" in the same sentence (without a "not" in there somewhere"). If I had've started with Python or Ruby for example, I'm sure I could've at least reused some of that code. Thanks for wasting years of my life and teaching me bad programming habits, PHP.

    If you do consider yourself a "professional developer", and you're working on an application where you think PHP is the right tool then drop that crap like a ton of bricks and try some other language... Python I can vouch for, and I hear Ruby is great too, and they both have great web frameworks.