Subj : Re: Visual Studio 2013 se
To   : Mercyful Fate
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed May 06 2015 07:29:00

  Re: Re: Visual Studio 2013 settings regarding indentation/code style
  By: Mercyful Fate to Nightfox on Tue May 05 2015 22:49:41

 MF> I like BSD a lot too, ran my bbs off it for several years and ran like an 
 MF> absolute champ. It's seems like apple likes to take stuff and force their 
 MF> tools like xcode to even compile simple programs. Reminds me a lot like 
 MF> microsoft to tell the truth. But they are a company and have to protect 
 MF> their interests i supose. Just how it works.

It seems fairly typical to me for the OS maker to also have development tools
for their platform.  It's good for them to provide that in order to get
developers to write software for their platform.  In a way, I think it makes
sense, since nobody knows the OS better than the OS maker, so they're in a good
position to provide development tools & APIs that let you use the ins & outs of
the OS.

I do like having choice though - and you aren't necessarily stuck with XCode
for Mac.  I believe gcc is available or could be installed on OS X too, and
other IDEs (such as CodeBlocks) are available.  For the GUI, I once wrote a GUI
app for both Windows and Mac using the WxWidgets GUI toolkit - although I did
use XCode to build it for Mac.

Nightfox

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