Re: Just my two cents on the subject
Re: Just my two cents on the subject
- Subject: Re: Just my two cents on the subject
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:06:31 +0100
Kevin Bradley wrote:
Apple wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to create AS Studio,
giving us almost total access to the Cocoa classes from AS.
Uh-uh, Studio doesn't provide anything close to 'almost total access'
to Cocoa from AS. For the money (i.e. free) it's a reasonable
solution, but it's hardly what you'd call best-of-breed.
It's a quick, cheap RAD solution, but it was obviously done on a
budget, being neither as easy and novice-friendly as FaceSpan nor as
powerful and flexible as PerlObjC/CamelBones/PyObjC/RubyCocoa. So
while it's perfectly adequate for a certain range of tasks if you're
willing to put in the extra work to learn how to use it, as soon as
you want to do anything outwith its comfort zone you'll be fighting
it all the way. But you get what you paid for, I suppose.
(In hindsight, it's a real pity Apple didn't just buy out FaceSpan
and update that, but I guess that's Apple for you: a spot of old-
school "not invented here" and a dab of NeXTie "our way or the
highway", combined with dashings and dashings of the boundless "how
hard can it possibly be?" over-optimism that's common to many
programmers and endemic amongst management. But that's just folks for
you.)
Cheers,
has
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