Mac Development

Gnomie JavaBeans writes:

Hey Chris,

I’ve noticed the recent videos involving programming. Seems like that is a pretty popular subject as of late. My questions are aimed at development on the Mac OS platform. I’ve never programmed outside of Windows. I have really been debating on switching over and developing for the Mac. I have heard that Apple is great toward its developers and provide a nice array of tools that are free with the OS. To me this is pretty amazing coming from using the bloated Visual Studio IDE. Not that Visual Studio is bad, but it is bloated and it does cost too much.

With Mac giving these tools out with the OS, you would think it would make more mention of it. If I had known that a long time ago I would have started in that direction. What do you think? Does Apple limit itself developer-wise because it doesn’t advertise this aspect enough? I am always seeing something about Windows development, but never anything about the Mac. Just thought it was interesting. I don’t want to spend a ton of money on my first Mac, so I guess I will pick up a Mac mini to start development on; it’s more than fast enough for that I think.