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by toxican 1405 days ago
I'm a little hung up on the fact that you think between "Xcode" and "visual studio" that the latter is the one that more suggests you're about to be writing code in an IDE.
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On every Unix box I've ever used, any tool prefixed with 'X' usually relates to the display server technology. MacOS is the only outlier here, and the 'X' doesn't really mean anything to me as a user. The word 'code' hints that it's a tool for development, but altogether it could mean anything from a compiler to a Xorg IDE. At least Visual Studio conveys the idea that you're going to be using a GUI application with designer/compositional tools, and adding 'Code' to it clarifies that it's a visual tool for manipulating code.

It's a bit of a reach, but if you think the average iPad user could tell you what "Logic" does, I'd be inclined to disagree.