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12 Jan 2013
The Case Against Xcode Plugins
Andrew Pontious covers with Wolf Rentzsch the logic behind why Apple won’t introduce a public Xcode plugin architecture. Plus: how Mike Lee solved the halting problem.
Links:
- Captain & Tennille « Wikipedia
- ryanmaxwell/UncrustifyX « GitHub
- Mike Lee tweet: “While you were distracted by CES, we solved the halting problem. http://pressdoc.com/p/000s8a”
- The Hunting of the Snark « Wikipedia
- Surround SCM Xcode 3 Integration « Seapine Software
- Surround SCM Xcode 4 Integration « Seapine Software
- The Scorpion and the Frog « Wikipedia
- Andrew Pontious tweet: “Is the hex viewer in Xcode, used to view memory contents, from Hex Fiend? I thought it was, and it’s credited in Xcode’s acknowledgements”
- Chris Espinosa tweet: “@apontious Yes, it is. Used both in the hex editor and in the debugger memory views.”
Rejected Episode Titles:
- The Nicholas Sparks of Objective-C
- Now We Have to Erase the Episode
- Real Artists Ship
- Fast and Loose, Baby
- You Can Stop Thinking About It, We’re Done
- We’re Not Regimented, Here at Edge Cases University
- Not GC, GCC
- They Could Go Ahead and Fuck with It
- They Control the Horizontal, They Control the Vertical
- Apple Pulled the AppleScript Rug Out
- I Should’ve Just Done the Bad Thing
- They’re Going to Sting Us, It’s Their Nature
- If I Were Letting You Talk, Which I’m Not
- Something Drastic, Like Blackmail Scott Forstall
- The Path of Obsolescence
- I Find Nothing to Disagree With Here