CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO REALBASIC REALbasic (Disney web site)
CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO REALBASIC REALbasic vs. Apple s XCode Just as REALbasic competes with Microsoft s Visual Basic as a tool for application development for Windows software, REALbasic also has plenty of competition in the Apple world. One competitor of particular significance is Apple s XCode. Like REALbasic, XCode is a tool suite and an IDE for software creation on the Mac OS X. There is no doubt that XCode provides an effective and powerful software development platform. Programmers with a strong Macintosh background no doubt will want to give it serious consideration. However, unlike REALbasic, XCode s capabilities are strictly limited to Mac OS X development. Unlike REALbasic, XCode is not designed to support the development of applications on previous versions of the MAC OS. XCode s focus is on providing a powerful software development environment that facilitates application development using any of an assortment of programming languages. XCode is also designed to provide programmers with access to the latest Apple technologies. The programming languages supported by XCode include C C++ Objective-C Java AppleScript XCode provides a powerful and robust IDE for the development of software designed specifically for the Max OS X. However, it falls short of REALbasic in many ways. For example, while REALbasic is based on a easy to learn, yet powerful, implementation of BASIC, XCode only supports AppleScript, Java, and variations of C and C++. XCode also falls short in the area of cross-platform development. Programmers who develop an application using XCode and one of its supported version of C or C++ must be prepared to rewrite their applications to port them over to Windows or Linux. While versions of C and C++ exist on both Windows and Linux, the programmer needs to be prepared to deal with differences in the way the languages are implemented on other platforms. In addition, the programmer also must be prepared to learn to work with different IDEs on each platform to which the application will be ported.
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