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Originally Posted by MC1171611
I'd love to see SwordSearcher for Mac; most "ported" apps aren't that great, but with a Mac-minded UI overhaul I'm sure (from what I've heard) that it would be a top o' the line competitor on the Mac platform.
*offers ssh access for compiling on OS X*  |
The reason there is no
SwordSearcher for Mac is the same as why 99.99% of developers never target Mac. Here some blog entries about my Mac development "adventures":
Here and
Here . (Some of the numbers mentioned are well out of date, but the points about development are the important ones.)
There is a history behind technical decisions at Apple. Essentially, when Jobs came back to save Apple, he brought with him all his baggage from his failed Next company. Even though Next was a failed enterprise, Jobs wanted to keep their work, so their development framework was used for Mac OS X. Jobs knows nothing about software development and this ensured that anyone who wanted to develop for the Mac in the next two decades would pay the price with mind numbing tedium. Bottom line: Mac development tools are in the dark ages compared to what is available for Windows. People who stick with it can create great applications for the Mac, but there was no way for me to justify my continued development on Mac when 95% of the people interested in my software use Windows and I am just one developer. Besides, the Mac Bible software market has gotten a lot more crowded lately so the ROI is even lower that it could have been a few years ago.
But don't take my word for it. If you google variations of "Mac development sucks, XCode sucks, Interface Builder sucks, etc" you can read to your heart's content.
Anyway, SwordSearcher on a Mac is an option for people and I have plenty of customers who do it:
http://www.swordsearcher-mac.com Sure, it's not native Mac API, but SS Mac users don't seem to mind.