From a purely technical language semantics perspective, perhaps
(though I consider that a subjective opinion), but it's certainly
obvious that Apple's current successes with Mac OS X are at least in
part due to the Objective-C runtime and all of the work that was (and
has) been put into Cocoa, which unfortunately for the Java
developers, is inherently tied to Objective-C.
Objective-C provides run-time capabilities that Java doesn't, that C
doesn't, that C++ doesn't, etc... and it's those runtime capabilities
that makes Cocoa so powerful. Sure, the memory model might be a bit
goofy, and messaging conventions might look completely alien to some,
but that stuff isn't really all that important when you look at the
advantages that are provided by the runtime.
- Terry
On Aug 17, 2006, at 4:59 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
This thread convinced me to start reading about Objective-C. More
soon, but the short version is GACK! This is not a modern language.
Leaving library issues and VM aside, Java is a vastly superior
language. Apple would have done themselves and their developers a
big favor if they had based Cocoa on Java or C#-like knockoff
rather than Objective-C.
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