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Macintosh Programming?

Started by AlanC Jan 10, 2007 at 4:21 PM 2 replies 600+ views
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AlanC
AlanC
I want to start programming on my macintosh. Are there any programming languages for mac? Becuse I can't seem to find any...
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Simian Man
Simian Man
Almost every popular programming language has a Mac implementation. If you don't already know any programming languages, AppleScript would probably be the easiest.
stimarco
stimarco

Go to Apple's website, locate their developer section, sign up to their developer thing -- it's free -- and download their XCode tools. They're pretty good and you'll get the GNU tools with a nice IDE. (Not brilliant, mind, but pretty good.)

Objective C is mad, but fun.
Sean Timarco Baggaley (Est. 1971.)Warning: May contain bollocks.
Chad Smith
Chad Smith
Yep, most programming languages are not OS specific. You can even use C# on the MAC. Just use MONO (.NET for Mac and Linux as I believe). MONO is mature enough now as far as I know.

You can also use C++. Just be carefull on the API you use. You could use OpenGL, SDL, and some other ones, but SDL and OpenGL are mostly the 2 main ones used on cross platforms.

I wish you the best of luck.


Chad.

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