... the fact is that NOBODY, develops such tools for MacOs.
Demonstratively false.
show me any commercial big name tool. Raisonance, Nohau , Keil , IAR, ARM RVDS, American Arium.
where are the Macos versions ?
Hmm, NOBODY became 'big names'.... That's a different statement.
I don't think he considers anything that costs less than a car to be worth his time.
my statements are based on what i see being used in industrial settings. All the companies i have worked for , or have come in contact with, all use commercially available software and development systems.
Nohau, Ashling, Greenhills, ARM , Lauterbach , American Arium, Keil, IAR , and others, you name it.
Commercial tools.
not homebrew , not slapped together , not open source.
Not a single one for MAC. Maybe one for some *nix flavor.
Same goes for things like FPGA tools. win/*nix , no Macos.
In 23 years, i have never seen a hardware/firmware engineering lab that used Macs. EVEN AT APPLE ! MACS are designed using WINDOWS based CAD/CAE tools.
That's the simple truth. The ecosystem in that market is too small so nobody releases those kind of tools for that platform.
Don't get me wrong. I also have a Mac and various other Apple machines and like em very much, when running the applications these machines are designed for.
just get a cheap pc. besides : you don:t want to fry your 2700$ mac's usb port with a wonky soldered ftdi232 ... get a cheapo usb plugin card and fry that. 12$ gets you a 4 port usb pci card. fry em to your hearts content