[TxMt] Re: Cocoa development with Textmate no Xcode

Jason Coffin jasoncof at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 17:22:53 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Gerd Knops <gerti-textmate at bitart.com> wrote:
> I don't think that is a good idea for someone in the learning stage. I use Xcode for project management, debugger and the built-in Clang, and TextMate for everything else. Which basically means I am using Xcode for maybe a couple minutes a day on average (at least for a project with a well-established code base).
>
> Unless you really know what you are doing, I'd think trying to do Cocoa development without using Xcode would be an uphill battle and end up costing you much more time than it will save you.
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> But I am looking forward to read other folks opinion, being that I use TextMate full time for Cocoa development.
>
> Gerd

Thanks Gerd,

I'm going to take your advice and use Xcode for building/project
management and stick with Textmate for editing. Maybe once I get more
comfortable with Cocoa I will look into Xcode alternatives.

Of course, I'm still interested in others opinions.

Thanks!



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