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Contributed by: aristotle1990 Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 04:52 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
would anyone prefer this over xcode? xcode is free, powerful, and produces really nice programs. i am just curious as to how this differs from xcode. please reply.
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why - dylan3--2008
My impression is that if you're doing Carbon work, Metrowerks is a better tool. For Cocoa, probably XCode, but if you're really good with Metrowerks, stay with the tool you know.Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 10:22 PM PDT
why - Fredrik Andersson
Project Builder don't count ?Either way I use CodeWarrior myself, and I find it an excellent tool; but it's really in need of a major update, gcc and Xcode is starting to get very advanced compared to CodeWarrior now when it got autovectorization and optimizes very well these days too.
Other than that the obvious pro about CodeWarrior is without doubt it's support for both MacOS 9 and Win32.
And if you maintain or compile older applications based on the PowerPlant framework etc.
Tuesday, May 17 2005 @ 09:43 PM PDT
why - Brad Oliver
There are several reasons why someone would choose CodeWarrior over Xcode:1. Compile speed - CW is nearly twice as fast as Xcode for the average task on a single-CPU Mac. It's still faster than Xcode on a dual-CPU Mac for most projects. You can usually beat CW's compile speed with 4 or more CPUs though. ;-)
2. The IDE is different (and I would argue more usable) than Xcode's. Options are easy to find, use and set. There are not 3 or 4 different places to set the same option.
3. CodeWarrior has excellent support for inline PowerPC assembly. Xcode's "CW-like" assembly support isn't mature enough to deal with more complex assembly tasks.
Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 01:04 AM PDT
OS 9, that's why... - SPlatkus
There are still those of us out here that have to maintain applications written for OS 9. CodeWarrior is the only game in town if you need to develop an application for Mac OS 9. Apple's free Xcode tools cannot create OS 9 applicationsThursday, May 05 2005 @ 09:06 AM PDT
why - Bryan Schappel
For those that don't know the reason the PowerMac took off was because of CodeWarrior. It was the ONLY compiler for PowerPC when Apple introduced the CPU. CodeWarrior was the ONLY development environment for OS X until Apple released Xcode. There are still many commercial apps developed with CW and it is not a trivial task to move a project from one environment to another.I think it is awesome that Metrowerks keeps this crucial tool updated.
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