Anyone do application development on a mac? what language do you use and what sort of stuff do you write?

Just curious...

Not started in earnest yet, but the way to go for rapid development seems to be the Cocoa API with either Objective-C, C++ or Java. Been too busy learning Windows API's and such like for my degree!

All the info you need for free at http://developer.apple.com/

My dev tool of choice at the mo are the Apple Developer Tools included free with a copy of Mac OS X or available for download from the above site. You get the Project Builder IDE which uses GCC 3, Interface Builder andloads of other stuff. The Dev Tools also come with code examples.

I am looking at porting my company's product to the Mac... I'll be using some pre-compiled software (Apache, Tomcat) and compiling our stuff myself using gcc. Much of our code is Java, so should just work!

Simon.

Pretty certain both Apache and Tomcat will compile under OSX now.

Apache comes WITH OS X, here's a page on Tomcat (which is Java anyway so doesn't need compiling - although mod_jk will):

Tomcat on OS X

Simon.

I know Apache comes with, but that's an out of the box compile. If you need something a bit "more", as some people will, then you have to recompile, same as "Apache comes with Debian" or "Apache comes with FreeBSD".

Added, I'd be surprised if you couldn't get a pre-compiled mod_jk, I presume the bundled Apache is compiled with DSO support? Out of interest, which Apache comes bundled with OSX, 1.3.27 or 2.0.44?


[Edited by stevencotton - 2/19/2003 2:19:14 PM]

Steve - fair points, we basically just need static HTML page serving + DSO for mod_jk

Can't say for Jaguar, but for 10.1.5 I'm pretty sure it's 1.3.27

Simon.

Check out codewarrior / Metrowerks was the thing to use when I was Mac developing...