Its first product was a Modula-2 compiler originally developed by Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the ALGOL W, Pascal and Modula-2 programming languages.

Also in 1994, Metrowerks opened a small sales and R&D office in Austin, Texas to be closer to the manufacturers of the new PowerPC chips, IBM and Motorola.

After the acquisition, Jean Belanger moved to become VP of business development in SPS and after a short stint as Director of Software Strategy for SPS, Greg Galanos left to become a General Partner and Managing Director at SOFTBANK Venture Capital, known as Mobius Venture Capital since December 2001.

Metrowerks subsequently acquired a small number of other companies including HIWARE AG, Embedix[9] and Applied Microsystems Corp. in November 2002 for US$40-Million.

However, Apple invested heavily in their own development tools for OS X (Xcode), distributed free of charge and always up to date.

The increasing prominence of the Cocoa development environment marginalized CodeWarrior, and finally the surprise announcement of the Mac's switch to Intel processors – mere weeks after Freescale had sold the Metrowerks Intel compiler tools to Nokia[citation needed] – signalled the end of CodeWarrior on the Mac.

In July 2005, Freescale discontinued CodeWarrior for Mac OS, as the same time it was also divesting from any tools targeting non-Freescale silicon.

[13][14] Metrowerks' logo of the iconic factory worker and other visual branding was created by illustrator Bill Russell Addendum: Freescale's website now says, "CodeWarrior for Mac OS has been discontinued and is no longer sold or supported."