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Yes, the solution to you not willing to pay $5 is for someone else to invest hundrends of thousands of dollars (at programmer's market pay) to re-implement XCode.

I do develop open-source software (SumatraPDF) and give it away for free, but this kind of attitude of entitlement always gets me.

My point exactly. Although if someone really does want to re-implement Xcode, more power to them I say! Me, I'll pay the 5 bucks.

This is a lot harder than just paying $4.99 for Xcode, but I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt GNUstep's developer tools to Cocoa development.

How about a bunch of us pay $5 to do that? Kickstarter project?

> Great, so all someone needs to do is make a decent Cocoa IDE

You can start from here: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/DeveloperTools.html

Not so much if you want to do any iOS work.

If doing iOS work isn't worth five dollars to you, than how much you can be said to "want" to do it is up for debate.

I get the impression everybody is preaching to the choir here for the most part.

JetBrains is working on an IDE for Cocoa developer and guess what it wont cost 5 bucks thats for sure.

http://www.jetbrains.com/cidr/