XCode

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/

http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/

• Editor
  • XCodePragmas

• Tasks
  • RemovingDebugCode

• Versions
  • XCodeVersionOneDotFive
  • XCodeVersionOneDotOh
  • XCodeVersionOneDotOne
  • XCodeVersionOneDotTwo
  • XCodeVersionThreeDotOne
  • XCodeVersionTwoDotOne
  • XCodeVersionTwoDotThree
  • XCodeVersionTwoDotTwo

• Uncategorized
  • ApplicationLinkingIssues - solving linking problems
  • DeveloperToolsDiscussions - disscussions of Developer Tools Issues
  • InterfaceBuilder - XCode's sidekick
  • UsingCInXCode - rich discussion about scanf, printf and behavior of XCode's Run Console
  • WhatIsThatFeatureFor - Xcode features and how to use them
  • XCodeHowTo - project setup examples
  • XCodePlugin - XCode plugin API, to extend XCode functionalities
  • XCodeTips - little cotton swabs you use to clean out the gunk in your project
  • XcodeCrossDevelopment - Cross Development
  • XcodeProjectAndTargetSettings
  • XcodeRegexes - Regular expression formats used in Xcode

Description:

XCode is Apple's IDE for Mac OS X. It replaces an older IDE called ProjectBuilder. It has these cool technologies that speed up the development process. So while it's still slower than CodeWarrior (but faster than ProjectBuilder) with normal compilation, it's incredibly fast if you take full advantage of it. It includes "FixAndContinue" which lets you make a change to one file, recompile it, and load it into the running executable, WITHOUT quitting, relinking, and relaunching the whole thing! Also, it has ZeroLink, which is used only during development to speed up compiling. It lets you bypass the linker, and instead have the executable load the .o files as needed.

It also has distributed compilation, which uses Rendezvous to find other computers on the network running XCode. Then, if there are others available, it uses processor resources on them during compilation to speed up the process even more. With all these timesavers turned on, it comes out to be faster than CodeWarrior for most development.