JetBrains recently introduced AppCode, a new IDE for developing Mac applications, and Embarcadero Technologies recently added Mac OS X as a target deployment platform for C++ and Delphi in its eponymous flagship IDE. Apple’s flagship IDE dominates the development of iPhone, iPad and desktop applications for the Macintosh. Of course, Apple’s Xcode is the default Mac OS X development environment. Now, 16 years after the release of CodeWarrior, there is a new bumper crop of IDEs that can build applications for the Mac OS, and they’re not all made by Apple.
Way back in the 1990s, the only way to write a program for the Macintosh was to use Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior, a third-party IDE designed to make software development graphically appealing.
