What are the development tools on the Mac?

Question

Are there any development tools like NetBeans or Eclipse on OS X that I can use to write an application?

Answer 1

Xcode was good for your job. If you want use NetBeans and Eclipse on your Mac, you can download them, too, because they have OS X distributions.

• Eclipse
• Netbeans

Answer 2

If you are looking for Java development on the Mac, both NetBeans and Eclipse have a distribution for Mac OS X. Xcode also has support for Java, but it is not a Java-centric tool.

Answer 3

There are built-in vim and emacs. Both of them can be used as IDE.

Built-in vim and emacs don't have GUI (only console versions) but at least they are relatively new in latest OSX versions.

If you want GUI versions there are MacVim and a couple of GUI emacses for OSX.