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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Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 09:51 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.

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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 applications

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Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 09:06 AM PDT