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Re: Apple should get behind Cocoa Java

Rob Ross wrote:

The Objective-C runtime environment was created circa 1987 (ish), long before Java existed, so that is why I don't think comparing the two is quite appropriate. Objective-C is a dynamic language with a lot of concepts borrowed from Smalltalk. It has a very different programming model than Java. Whereas Java tries to make as many decisions as possible at compile time, Objective-C tries to defer as much as possible until runtime. (I will concede Java does have many modern language features that I would like to see added to Objective-C.)

But it's not 1987. It's 20 years later. Given the lack of legacy code in Objective C and the few programmers who know it, wouldn't it have made sense for Apple to choose a more modern language for their platform? One that had learned from the mistakes of C, C++, and Objective C?

If Apple had chosen to go with C++, then I would have understood their reasoning. They were choosing familiarity over perfection. However since they chose a language almost everyone was going to have to learn for the first time anyway, they could have made a much better choice than Objective C.


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