Consider the sequence of events: From the point at which Steve Jobs returns to Apple, the company begins minimising its developer ecosystem’s dependence on external suppliers. Metrowerks CodeWarrior is deprecated in favour of Xcode; Xcode’s underlying gcc compiler is switched out for LLVM, the PhD project of one Chris Lattner, now Apple’s Director of Developer Tools. Moore’s law begins to break down generally while benchmarks such as MIPS per Watt become more important, especially in ...
