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Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)

On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 06:56 , David W. Halliday wrote:
Regardless, Apple has lost a superior tool for native Cocoa development
on the client and standalone sides, as well as squandering a reason for
using Apple hardware on the server side.

Not only that, but Apple has taken away a competetive advantage for Cocoa software developers: by forcing us to use Java the playing field has been leveled for those other Java developer shops out there. (Read http://paulgraham.com/paulgraham/avg.html for the competitive edge Lisp gave him.) The more so because even if I use Java for desktop EOF applications, why should I limit myself to a tiny market whereas my competitors can run their applications on the Wintel, Linux and Sun machines out there? This can make a big difference.
My conclusion would be: dump Cocoa and WO and jump ship to the Java camp. I could still use my Mac to write Java desktop applications but I would not deploy them on that platform. Too bad Apple.
Of course, I don't want to do this... writing Cocoa applications is much more fun than Swing...

Annard
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Annard Brouwer
Senior Software Architect
ObjectWarehouse Inc.

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 >Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI) (From: "David W. Halliday" <email@hidden>)



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