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Comparing Windows and Mac OS X as a development environment

I have been using Visual Studio (VC ++) and the Windows API for a long time and am well acquainted with the Linux toolchains, but have no experience developing Mac OS X.

I would like to hear your opinion about the advantages and disadvantages of Windows and Mac as a development environment . But, since this can be subjective, I would be grateful if you could list some facts, and not just say: “A is better than B”. In particular, I would like to hear the following:

  • IDE: Visual Studio vs. xcode
  • API: Win32 API (including the native Win32, MFC, C # APIs) and Cocoa (often Objective-C)
  • Documentation: MSDN vs.
  • Tool support: debugging, profiling, testing, etc.
  • Knowledge Base: When you have a problem, is it easy to get help from anyone? Lots of books? (In the development of Windows there are Petzold, Richter, ...)
  • Mobile Applications: iPhone and Windows Mobile

I'm afraid this topic will be controversial. But I want to know how the Mac offers a development environment compared to Windows.

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