Archive for October, 2011

WinRT and Cocoa – API evolution: MS vs. Apple

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html After digesting the above, I’m suddenly a bit apprehensive about whether Microsoft know what they’re doing or not. The fact that they keep changing their API surface suggests, in fact, that they don’t. In here we read that “Microsoft says it ‘reimagined’ every aspect of Windows, this new runtime, or application model” which seems [...]


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iOS versus Windows 8 versus Android – developer ecosystem

Let’s study the pros and cons. Apple have the sanest API/platform evolution and the best IDE. I have hated IDEs ever since they first came out in the 90s. Xcode circa 3.2 is the first IDE I will deign to use and frankly I find it amazing. Many reviews criticized Xcode for being crappy compared [...]


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