Comments on: Update on Attack of the Meeplings for iPhone http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/update-on-attack-of-the-meeplings-for-iphone/ Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:20:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Joshua Smyth (Admin) http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/update-on-attack-of-the-meeplings-for-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-8009 Joshua Smyth (Admin) Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:08:21 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/?p=470#comment-8009 I don't use a Mac as my primary computer so lots of things I find annoying about Xcode are really just inherited from how OSX behaves and where that differs from windows. One of the issues I have with Xcode is that the shortcuts for IDE features that I use all the time - Indenting multiple lines, steping thru code in the debugger, jumping backwards and forwards thru the cursor stack are all hard to remember. And debuging on the device, performing optimizations (which means many parts of my code look much more like C and alot less like Obj-C) and trying to find out what has been causing memory corruption issues as all been very educational. Also I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect IDE or a perfect programming language anyway - If you can't point out a couple of things that you don't like about your tools, I don't think you know them well enough. I don’t use a Mac as my primary computer so lots of things I find annoying about Xcode are really just inherited from how OSX behaves and where that differs from windows. One of the issues I have with Xcode is that the shortcuts for IDE features that I use all the time – Indenting multiple lines, steping thru code in the debugger, jumping backwards and forwards thru the cursor stack are all hard to remember.

And debuging on the device, performing optimizations (which means many parts of my code look much more like C and alot less like Obj-C) and trying to find out what has been causing memory corruption issues as all been very educational.

Also I don’t think there is such a thing as a perfect IDE or a perfect programming language anyway – If you can’t point out a couple of things that you don’t like about your tools, I don’t think you know them well enough.

]]> By: Dirk http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/update-on-attack-of-the-meeplings-for-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-8004 Dirk Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:55:13 +0000 http://www.tinyfrogsoftware.com/?p=470#comment-8004 Having used a lot of IDEs over the last 20 years or so, including VisualStudio and Eclipse, I don't quite get the Xcode criticism (you are not in the minority, I read this all the time). I started using it about 2 years ago and I've never looked back, not even to Emacs. And Obj-C is by far my favorite language now, I just love it. Having used a lot of IDEs over the last 20 years or so, including VisualStudio and Eclipse, I don’t quite get the Xcode criticism (you are not in the minority, I read this all the time). I started using it about 2 years ago and I’ve never looked back, not even to Emacs. And Obj-C is by far my favorite language now, I just love it.

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