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by EMIRELADERO 1054 days ago
Note that the EU's Digital Markets Act will probably stop all that bs, as requiring to use one core platform service to develop for, and distribute to, another (iOS) is against that law.

Third-party app stores and outright website-based app distribution are coming next year anyway.
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ziftface 1054 days ago
That's interesting, I did not know about this legislation. I'm not European, but it seems that even outside of Europe, people will benefit from this change.
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sofixa 1054 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
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tmpX7dMeXU 1054 days ago
If Apple was compelled to support a first-class iOS development experience on Windows, all this would do is immovably stunt the continued improvement of iOS development on macOS. There is a material degree of OS integration / cooperation in IOS development with Xcode. If Apple released a second-class development experience I’ve no doubt that you’d spare no time in making similar insinuations that it’s some sort of artificial constraint.
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jwells89 1054 days ago
Xcode and iOS Simulator on other platforms would involve porting AppKit as well as writing all-new Darwin virtualization for those platforms. Xcode is thoroughly a Mac native app, and the iOS/watchOS/tvOS/etc simulators currently just run the respective userlands on top of the underpinnings that macOS shares with other Apple platforms.

It'd be rather similar to the situation with Docker, where Xcode and the simulators would run markedly better on macOS than on other platforms due to fewer layers being necessary. Developing for iOS on Windows or Linux would technically be possible but it wouldn't be very pleasant.

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incrudible 1054 days ago
XCode is a hog, if there was a supported way to develop applications without it, that would be a first class experience.
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INGSOCIALITE 1054 days ago
This is more than accurate. I wanted to start iOS development, but even opening Xcode is painful.
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parski 1054 days ago
Been using Xcode since 2012 and I think it's great. It has it's flaws, sure, but overall I think it's a really good development experience. What do you dislike about it?
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jwells89 1054 days ago
I've been using it since it was known as Project Builder and also don't have many complaints. It's not perfect, but it's not bad. I spend plenty of time in the IntelliJ-based Android Studio and haven't found it to be much of an improvement (and in fact, find that its "smarts" get in the way as often as they help).
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detourdog 1054 days ago
like the xcode cli tools. all th e basic tools are there.
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