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Apple previews Xcode 2, to be part of Tiger
June 28, 2004 - 15:05 PDT
At the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote today, the next major release of Xcode, Apple's suite of developer tools, was previewed. The second version will add support for 64-bit application development and faster turnaround times for creating Mac OS X applications. Xcode 2 will be included in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), which will be available in the first half of 2005 for a suggested retail price of US$129.
Building on such technologies as Fix and Continue, Zero Link and Distributed Build, along with Xcode's user interface, Xcode 2 will add such new features as Dead Code Stripping and Visual Modeling and Design. With Dead Code Stripping, developers can remove unused executable code from compiled applications and immediately see the effect in smaller code sizes and faster customer downloads. Applications are purportedly even easier to design, create and maintain by offering developers a clear visual representation of the application structure with Visual Modeling and Design.
Xcode 2 also includes: 64-bit development tools to build data-intensive applications using 64-bit memory addressing; an integrated Apple Reference Library to offer a single search and presentation interface to all of Apple's online and locally stored developer documentation; Apple's enhanced version of GCC v3.5, the next generation of the compiler; graphical remote debugging to display the debugging of data for full screen applications on remote machines; Auto Vectorization to automatically generate Velocity Engine-optimized code without requiring any source code changes; Ant build system support to make cross-platform development of Java applications easier; and support for Subversion Source Code Management, in addition to supporting CVS and Perforce, to enable easy integration with a range of development infrastructure.
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