Apple Unveils Extra Leopard-isms To Developers

devilsecret writes to point out that some of the new Apple capabilities for developers on Leopard have been unveiled. The most interesting parts appear to be the opening of more of iLife to other programs, and the inclusion of Ruby on Rails.

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slashdotted already?

[qw0ntum]

Here's the link to Apple's page describing the developer features: http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/index. html

Re:Why do people pay for this stuff?

[2nd Post!]

In the jump from 10.4 to 10.5 you get:
You get built in backup and restore software
You get automatic backup functionality
You get virtual desktops
You get built in remote presentation and remote control software
You get new Widgets plus the ability to turn any webpage into a widget
You get a new mail program with increased planning functionality
New group management functionality in Mail and in iCal

Under the hood you get:
New animation libraries
New 64 bit CPU optimizations
New resolution independent ui

You pay for this stuff because you find it useful.

Re:Why do people pay for this stuff?

[NivenHuH]

You forgot a biggie...

Now in Leopard, the Objective-C runtime has been updated to include a thoroughly modern and high performance garbage collection system, making memory management a thing of the past.

Garbage collection is included as part of the Obj-C 2.0 runtime... Say bye bye to most memory leaks.. :) I think this is turned on by default and is an opt-out option for your code.