Editing CodeWarrior (section)

===Release===
The system was launched as CodeWarrior at the [[MacWorld Expo]] in January 1994. The Power Macs were slated to be launched that month as well, but a series of delays forced this to be set off until the official launch of the Power Mac machines on 14 March.{{sfn|Mark|1996a}}

At the time, both Apple's MPW and Symantec's Think C ran only on 68k machines, and only MPW was able to generate PPC binaries. Running natively on the PPC, and based on code dedicated to the platform, CodeWarrior offered dramatically higher performance, while allowing one to develop and debug on a single machine. Sales of other development systems ended practically overnight. Symantec, who had owned the Mac development market since 1986, did not release a native PPC version until late March 1995. By this time, several major Mac software vendors had moved to CodeWarrior and Symantec was never able to re-establish any sort of marketshare on the Mac.<ref name=macworld1995_07_p41>{{cite magazine
| magazine = [[Macworld]]
| title    = A crucial compiler ships
| url      = https://archive.org/details/eu_Macworld-1995-07-INT_OCR/page/n44/mode/1up
| first    = Charles
| last     = Seiter
| page     = 41
| date     = July 1995
| volume   = 12
| issue    = 7
}}</ref>

CodeWarrior was a key factor in the success of Apple's transition of its machine architecture from 68K processors to PowerPC because it provided a complete, solid PowerPC compiler when the competition (Apple's MPW tools and [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]] C++) was mostly incomplete or late to the market.<ref name=macworld1995_07_p41/> Metrowerks also made it easy to generate [[fat binary|fat binaries]], which included both 68K and PowerPC code.

Java support in CodeWarrior for Macintosh was announced for May 1996, slated for CodeWarrior 9.<ref name=javacw>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[MacTech]] |title=Yet Another Platform for CodeWarrior: Java |url=http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.12/12.01/Jan96Newsbits/index.html |date=January 1996 |page=98 |volume=12 |issue=1 |first=John |last=Kawakami}}</ref> Metrowerks took the approach to add Java tools support in CodeWarrior, including debugging, rather than write a new IDE.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[MacTech]] |title=Java Development Environments |url=http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.14/14.05/JavaDevEnvironments/index.html |date=May 1998| page=20 |volume=14 |issue=5 |first=Steve |last=Sheets}}</ref>