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As it should be—they've had time to work on the issues and should be competitive by now.

Yes this is it. But I wasn't getting that with OSX. In '06, it was pretty good compared to say Windows XP but since '08 it's been declining rapidly into whack-a-mole problems.

OSX is a bastardised version of UNIX under the hood which is "even worse than HP-UX when you haven't paid for the compilers" to deal with I found. Getting a reliable toolchain up that worked properly was a PITA.



You click a button marked "Install" in XCode and it installs the tools into /usr/bin. That sure is tough.

OS X userland is pretty stock BSD. It may be unfamiliar if you are used to Linux.


Putting the GNU tools on is pretty easy with Homebrew or MacPorts, though. Getting those is first thing I do when I set up a new Mac: grab Xcode, install the command line tools, get Homebrew, brew install coreutils, findutils, and gnu-sed.


That's an installed toolchain, not a properly working one.




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