Developer Efficiency - XCode, Eclipse, Visual Studio

Update 2012-03-03: Interesting comments & responses. I would encourage others who disagree or allege bias to repeat the experiment and post their own results.
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Disclaimer: Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all great American companies. I use technology from all 3 every day. I want them all to succeed. They all have good and bad points.

The video shows a "Hello World" app being created simultaneously for iPhone, Windows Phone, and Android. But the point here is not about phone platforms, that's just a way to create an equal playing field.

The code to implement the "logic" of the app is essentially the same on all platforms. However, in Visual Studio it only takes about 35 seconds to accomplish the task at hand, since there is no additional "plumbing" code needed to make it work.

Obviously this is a trivial example, but imagine how the trend would continue on a more complex app. Would you rather spend your time improving an app, or just making it run?

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[Ankhyl]

Well I have to admit that VS was very quick. However this video is wrong in many ways:

VS user moves the mouse with more haste. Also VS and Android simulators are already open, IOS simulator opens until build

On Xcode since 1:00 everything is rdy to code setText to label; however the coding happens until 2:00

On Eclise, everything from 0:24 until 2:27 is completely unnecessary. UI editor accepts an onClick input where you place a method name, then on class you use that method to set the Text

[John Leach]

This is an interesting perspective... Windows Phone looks like it works just like winforms (easy). But I have to ask... why did you type... so... slow... with the android one :0)

[Cosmopolit90]

looooooool what a shitty comparison, thats ridiculous. did microsoft pay you?

[OverG88]

Dislike! Totally wrong comparison. I like VS because of speed and intellisence (I feel very comfortable when programming). Eclipse is a bit slugish (sometimes its very anoying and thats primary reason why I dislike Eclipse). But, Eclipse has a lot of pros...work with multiple projects simultaneously, shortcuts are very nice (I feel very productive), intellisense is nice too, various plugins...

[Sander Declerck]

Really bad video, making a hello world app with everything in the code behind doesn't show how you can make a durable project. Also, the iOS developer doesn't look like he has any idea what's he's doing. I also tried to make the same application in XCode and finished in 35 sec and have a nice MVVM app (or at least the VVM part), which is much more maintainable... Just saying...

[TimTim Wong]

you know, Visual Studio is also used for developing Windows apps and Xbox games, and you can just use one language (C#, VB, etc.) for all such platforms.

[TimTim Wong]

Visual Studio > Eclipse > XCode if you don't waste so much time in Eclipse...

[judasizm]

simply the best ;)

[Mike Chamberlain]

Take a look at MonoTouch for iOS. You can still use all those technologies when programming iPhone.

[russologia]

All a plagiarism of Visual Basic?

[ripern]

Still developing for Windows Mobile? I'd recommend you to at least try Windows Phone.

[Vamshi Srinivas Maringanti]

Try mono for Android. It uses C#