Apple Releases Xcode 4 to Developers, Coming Soon to Mac App Store for $4.99 [Update: Now Available]

Oh gosh, pull the other heartstring. These underprivileged kids of which you speak — presumably they already have Macs on which to program? Presumably they also have parents or carers with credit cards?

Kalsta, do you share this account or are you just schizo? Back in post #418 you said:

Yep. It's sad alright.

Be thankful you live in a country where you can earn that much in less time than it takes to type a lengthy complaint on MacRumours. The other half of the world isn't so lucky.

And now you're complaining about someone pulling a heartstring? WTF?

Grr… It's posts like yours that really tempt me to break certain forum rules relating to etiquette and language. But I shall restrain myself and explain things for you, since you're a 'newbie'…

The first comment uses something called sarcasm in reference to 'underprivileged kids'. If they have a Mac capable of running Xcode 4, they can certainly afford $5 (or else Mumsy can).

You see, there really is another world out there Blackheadr… where families live on a few dollars a day, and struggle just to survive. For some reason it just pisses me off to see spoilt white American teenagers crying poor because they can't get something for free. I've no idea why. :mad:

More developers is a good thing. The more this XCode is available, the more people will try it out and see it's a very nice development environment. That's good for Apple.

Cool.

Might be worth $4.99 just to try out experimental iOS features like the iPad gestures.

Wow. Xcode 4 is the buggiest piece of GM Apple software I've ever used. And when my code does something strange, I'm not an experienced enough developer to know if something is my fault or the fault of the IDE :) (Developer forums seem to concur on how buggy it is, crashing doing simple things like copying and pasting, etc. Some people went as far to suggest Apple should start over!).

Since they're releasing it, maybe they know something I don't - who knows maybe some rogue preference somewhere that only some people have lying around makes it unstable. I guess I'll have to try using it on a clean install of Mac OS X to make sure that's not the case.

Not bad.... I just wonder what people will do with these tools now. If we get today's great iPhone apps as hobbies, imagine for the Mac.

i thought xcode was free??

I've been using XCode 4 for a while now, haven't seen any crashes so far but it's useless on many open source projects I try to compile.

i thought xcode was free??

It was.

Apple starts to charge for using everything...:mad:

I'm looking forward to XCode 4.. XCode 3 is fairly buggy, and lacked many features that I'd expect from a modern IDE, but still, a vast improvement from its predecessor ( before XCode )

XCode 3 is particularly annoying - especially when having IB open - 101+ windows.

Its a shame Apple think they have to charge for it, considering all others were free - but at least its only $4.99 and not more. At least Mac developer members get it for free, considering they've paid $99. I hope in the future Apple don't restrict this to Mac Developer members...

If XCode 4 lives up to what Apple have written, it looks like its going to be great.