TechnoBlog - The Future is Better.

After two weeks of working with Tiger and XCode solely it is hard to go back to Panther and Codewarrior. I know, Codewarrior is dead, but we are still releasing a version of a product I am working on made with CodeWarrior so I am stuck with it at least for one of my projects for a couple of months to come. And CodeWarrior on Tiger is even less stable for us than CodeWarrior on Panther, so therefore upgrading to Tiger is not a workable possibility yet.

You see, I am not a big CodeWarrior fan anymore. I wonder what will happen when I am fulltime in XCode, and all the new shine has polished off, but now the working autocompletion, the fast zerolinking, the single window approach and the at hand documentation have me addicted to it. Nothing ever came close in CodeWarrior, and all those people whining about it's death are just not willing to see the future. If they don't like XCode, I am sure there will be something they do like coming up next. KDevelop and Eclipse are open source IDE's that are fast evolving and it would not surprise me if one of them was giving XCode a hard time to maintain it's market leader position.

The same thing goes for Tiger. Reluctant at first I was not too impressed with it's newest features. Dashboard seemed like an Exposé add-on that I did not need, and Spotlight was in the way of the way I used to search and work, with organized files and searching on filenames. I am still not all the way with Spotlight, but Dashboard on the contrary has me excited. It is so nice to have the bunch of applications and statuses you need frequently only a touch of a button away.

So I am still spending days on Panther, waiting for a good time to upgrade to Tiger and meanwhile using tools like Amnesty to satisfy my Dashboard needs. It is far from the real thing. And I am still stuck in C++ and Carbon for my biggest project. I just tell myself how interesting it is to know about the hardcore internals of an Operating System, and carry on.