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Comment Programming with OpenStep/Cocoa (Score 1) 416

I think one thing people are missing about Mac OS X is the programming environtment. I sat down the other day and punched out a simple OpenGL project in Cocoa in about 5 minutes, I am not exagerating. Yeah all it did was draw a square and a triangle, but I didn't have to worry about any of the crap you do in windows. Anyway, I was sitting there thinking how easy it is to develop GUI tools in OS X and it hit me that maybe Apple should be selling these boxes as front ends to large server farms. I mean the thing has all the standard Unix stuff that you would expect, sendmail, nfs, BIND... And all of it just works (well for sendmail you have to make /. only writable by root, can anyone explain why NeXT made /. writable by the group?). SO why not develop apps in OS X that are basically just front ends for other Unix OS' like Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris... It seems like a natural use for such a great OS. If you like programming, and you hate all the stupidness of GUI dev tools out there, check out OS X, the Cocoa dev environment lets you forget about the things you don't care about, and you can just code. It is sooo nice. Burn windows burn...

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