Summary
Apple provides world-class developer tools for Mac OS X at no extra cost to Mac developers. Many of Apple’s tools use open-source components that are common on other platforms, such as Linux. The Gnu gcc, gdb, and CVS tools are used from Apple’s project Builder IDE. Interface Builder is an invaluable tool for Cocoa application development. Interface Builder configures and connects reusable objects. In some cases, entire applications can be created in Interface Builder without writing any code. Apple’s developer tools include a rich collection of utilities that simplify application development and help with tasks such as performance profiling, version control, and file merging.
So far, the architecture of Mac OS X and the languages that ...
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