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Cocoa (OS X)

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Cocoa (OS X) vs Xcode: What are the differences?

Cocoa (OS X): The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X. Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications; Xcode: The complete toolset for building great apps. The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building amazing apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Cocoa (OS X) can be classified as a tool in the "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category, while Xcode is grouped under "Integrated Development Environment".

"Great community " is the top reason why over 2 developers like Cocoa (OS X), while over 127 developers mention "IOS Development" as the leading cause for choosing Xcode.

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Pros of Cocoa (OS X)

Pros of Xcode

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Great community
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IOS
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Backed by apple

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IOS Development
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Personal assistant on steroids
29
Easy setup
17
Excellent integration with Clang
3
Beautiful
1
Built-in everything

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Cons of Cocoa (OS X)

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Massively bloated and complicated for smaller projects
3
Horrible auto completiting and text editing
1
Slow startup
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Very slow emulator

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What is Cocoa (OS X)?

Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications.

What is Xcode?

The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building amazing apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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What are some alternatives to Cocoa (OS X) and Xcode?

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

ASP.NET

.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Android SDK

Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.

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