Xcode - Composition

Composition

The main application of the suite is the integrated development environment (IDE), also named Xcode. The Xcode suite also includes most of Apple's developer documentation, and built-in Interface Builder, an application used to construct graphical user interfaces.

The Xcode suite includes a modified version of the GNU Compiler Collection as well as, in Xcode 3.1 and later, the llvm-gcc compiler, with front ends from the GNU Compiler Collection and a code generator based on LLVM, and, in Xcode 3.2 and later, Apple's LLVM Compiler, with the clang front end and a code generator based on LLVM, and the Clang Static Analyzer. It supports C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Java, AppleScript, Python and Ruby source code with a variety of programming models, including but not limited to Cocoa, Carbon, and Java. Third parties have added support for GNU Pascal, Free Pascal, Ada, C#, Perl, and D. The Xcode suite used the GNU Debugger as the back-end for its debugger. As of version 4.2 the Apple LLVM Compiler became the default compiler. LLDB became the default debugger as of Xcode 4.3.

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