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Re: Apple should get behind Cocoa Java

Subject: Re: Apple should get behind Cocoa Java
From: Patrick Coskren <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:37:16 -0400
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On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:

On Aug 16, 2006, at 17:52 , Ken Anderson wrote:
These are 2 different things really.
The Cocoa-Java bridge going away is not really related to Apple moving Java forward on the platform. If I were to guess, the philosophy would be:

Apps that run only on macs should be done in Objective-C, because that is the best language for the platform, and certainly the most popular language being used.
"Most popular being used" - I think you meant "for Mac OS developers" :-) AFAIK Java is steadily the most used programming language in the world, while Objective C is below the 40th place.


(Reference to www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm)

All that list tells me is that most job listings and resumes refer to "Cocoa programmers", not "Objective-C programmers". I just don't find it plausible that Objective-C is used only marginally more than Haskell. People using Objective-C without Cocoa, yeah, that I'd believe could be #40... basically just the GNUstep folks.

As for Java bridging, I would imagine that the availability now of Objective-C++ would make a JNI approach easier.

-Patrick
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