Xcode is Apple Computer's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing applications and other software for Mac OS X. It is shipped free with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, but is able to develop OS X applications that can run on any version of OS X. It extends and replaces Apple's earlier tool, Project Builder , which was inherited from NeXT. However, Xcode officially does not work in Mac OS X 10.2.Xcode works hand in hand with Interface Builder (also inherited from NeXT), a graphical tool used to create user interfaces.
Xcode includes GCC, and can compile C, C++, Objective C++, Java, and Objective C source code with a variety of programming models, including but not limited to Cocoa, Carbon, and Java.
Among the highly touted features in Xcode is the technology to distribute the building of source code using Rendezvous over multiple computers.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger will ship with Xcode 2.0, which will include visual modeling and graphical Remote DebuggingDebugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs in a computer program and/or a piece of electronic hardware to make it work better, or at all. The more/untidier connections there exist between various subsystems, the harder th. It will also include Apple Computer's version of the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc 4.0).
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