Re: is Shane's advice being collated?
Re: is Shane's advice being collated?
- Subject: Re: is Shane's advice being collated?
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:44:49 +0100
On Nov 19, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2014, at 1:47 am, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Shane what would your executive summary be for "why we should care about ASObjC as opposed to sticking with AS or learning Cocoa?"
>
> Interesting question.
>
> If you want to write full-blown apps, no question: go Objective-C. It's faster, there are better tools for debugging it, and anything more than relatively simple interfaces means you're going to be in Xcode anyway.
Definitely true, however I think that this is mainly about comparing Objective-C against plan-vanilla AppleScript.
There is the third way - which if I understand correctly was in AppleScript's designers' mind, as they labelled AS an "inter-application communication language" - which is: using AppleScript to call commands lodged in Applications and Scripting Additions.
In that context, Objective-C is not faster - the commands you call are written in C - and you leave the debugging to the programmers of those Applications and Scripting Additions.
Let alone the installation and updates of XCode, which is a great pleasure not to do.
Best,
Emmanuel
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