On: Xcode Through the Years

[tomnipotent]

Eclipse was originally a rewrite of IBM VisualAge in Java.

[danachow → tomnipotent]

And how is that relevant to whether it was a FOSS IDE project prior to Xcode.

[tomnipotent → danachow]

Everything about it was heavily influenced from the work done on an existing platform, and it was only greenfield in that it was built in Java. It would not have had the start it did if not for the closed-source proprietary product that preceded it.

[danachow → tomnipotent]

And Xcode was based on the proprietary Project Builder - so again I don't see the point in making a distinction here.