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I don't see how people can complain XCode 4 (with IntelliSense!!) for $4.99 is disrespectful. Sure it's not as generous as free, but it's still pretty damn good value. A lot of people will probably buy it now for the Intellisense (or 'Codesense') functionality, who otherwise wouldn't have much cared.

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People aren't complaining about XCode costing money. The problem is more that up until now, XCode has been the only way of getting a C and C++ compiler.

An open source compiler, too. Right now OS X doesn't ship with a compiler, so while the source of the compiler is available, there is no way to compile it without Xcode installed.

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