Cocoatoa :: Snow Leopard, a bargain at twice the price!.
Sounds like Snow Leopard has lots of development improvements. I know I am particularly curious about Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL and Xcode improvements. I’ll be finding out on Tuesday. It’s not apparent how much of these improvements will make it to the iPhone, but I’m getting interested in general Cocoa development as well.
Blocks sound interesting, and I plan on checking it out. Closures has been in serious debate for Java 1.7. So, it will be interesting to see how Blocks tackles the issue. I’m more curious as to how this will help you in your daily development cycle.
I’m having trouble finding more information about the wonderous Xcode improvements, but I did see that GCC 4.2 is standard (as a Java developer this means nothing to me) and Clang is built in (which is super cool, I have been using that). It also sounds like the Build Error window has improved, as well as code completion.
OS X has always been amazing at the price, with including an amazing developer toolset. With Snow Leopard at $29, it continues to show Apple is moving to continue improving market share.
UPDATE: M Cubed Blog has good Xcode 3.2 information.
In the world of multi-touch trackpads, Xcode isn’t being left behind and now has a few gestures of its own. Much like with other browsers, 3 finger swiping left or right will move back or forwards in the history. However, 3 finger swiping up or down now moves between the header and documentation windows, which is a great new feature and one I wish I could have on my iMac.
Beautiful.
