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Xcode is Apple Computer's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing applications and other software for Mac OS X. It is shipped free with version 10.3 (codenamed Panther) of the operating system, but is able to develop OS X applications that can run on any version of OS X. It extends and replaces Apple's earlier tool, Project Builder, which was inherited from NeXT.

Xcode works hand in hand with Interface Builder, a graphical tool used to create the user interface.

Xcode incorporates the GCC compiler, and can compile C, C++ and Objective C source code, using a variety of programming models, including but not limited to Cocoa and Carbon applications.