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In article <1115654846.172288.230850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

> Are there any figures on the current marketshare of Macintosh
> development tools, specificly Xcode & CodeWarrior?  Only a few years
> ago, Metrowerks CodeWarrior held a near monopoly on C++ tools, with
> ProjectBuilder in the fractional minority.  However, with Metrowerks
> shooting themselves in the foot these past two years, it's my
> understanding that CodeWarrior has dramaticly fallen and Xcode becoming
> the more popular choice.  Is there any data on this to either
> substantiate or refute this impression?

Metrowerks is (I think) a Motorola company, and I figure their CodeWarrior
compilers were a part in the effort of promoting Motorola CPU's. On the
Mac, this is G4 and earlier. The G5 I think is developed by Apple and IBM,
so there is no Motorola interest in promoting that anymore. In addtion,
with Mac OS X using GCC, which is one of the most compliant C++ compilers
around, it will become tough for Metrowerks to upper that, especially as
the Mac OS X developer tools are for free.

-- 
  Hans Aberg