<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: throwaway8121</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throwaway8121</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:14:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=throwaway8121" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway8121 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Xcode is the successor to Project Builder, the development environment for NeXT. It is written in Objective-C and AppKit.<p>Xcode was designed for writing Mac apps, why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway?<p>It's only after the iPhone that the question of a <i>port</i> to other platforms has arisen. But that would be a huge task equivalent to a full rewrite. Even Apple doesn't have the resources to pull that off smoothly.</p>
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