So we made a decision to buy the dev kit, but then what? ( mac)

[FormerMember]

I am spending the last 3 days trying to make sure somebody on this plant made it using a mac. Write a simple program and flash it to the DK. (before we make our own pcb)

I was able to find multiple questions about mac, without a single clear answer how exactly you do that. I find only promotions to this Segger software (that looks like something from 1980)

There was 1 guy who made it using command line, and his way seems like hell.

Do you have an official guide to somebody who pay for your product using a mac ?

1. Where do I write my code? the actual code that I can compile for the chip ? can I use Xcode?
2. I have the DK board, how do I flash it ?

Nordic, there are tens of millions mac users in this world, they really want to use your chip, but I found that all of them chose to give up because there is no clear way to do that.

[Wojtek]

Also, If you don't like SES (i think you are new in embedded, if you see it as something from 1980 but ok) you can download newest version of Eclipse and just set it up with GCC. There are tutorials available in blog section. It is not that hard, but SOME effort is needed.

I prefer using SES over Eclipse however.

[FormerMember]

Using this Segger environment feels like going back in time to me. Amazing how some companies especially with hardware has 0 sense in UI/UX. Check how beautiful and simple Arduino is. I heard only bad things about Eclipse here. Most examples that i read show how to flash an existing hex, there is not a single one that show how to write a program , compile and flash it. (even from SES). Thanks.