When Apple bought NeXT, one of the things it was getting was a set developer tools: Interface Builder, used to construct the GUI; and Project Builder, which was used for managing code and resources. Combined, they enabled rapid application development. Although these tools were well ahead of their time when they were created, in many ways they'd fallen behind by the time they saw their first release from Apple. There have been some significant updates to the tools since, including the renaming of Project Builder to Xcode and the integration of iOS development, but these didn't fundamentally alter the behavior of the two applications.
Xcode 4.0, released Thursday, appears to be the most radical departure yet. It contains very significant changes and will require equally significant revisions to a developer's workflow. Still, the overall benefits look to ultimately be worth the effort. The new tools are so sprawling that it will be impossible to thoroughly review XCode 4 here; instead, we'll focus on its overall approach, and a few specific functionalities.
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