RE: Learning Cocoa (OT!: Small Language Rant)
RE: Learning Cocoa (OT!: Small Language Rant)
- Subject: RE: Learning Cocoa (OT!: Small Language Rant)
- From: "Mark Orchard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 06:47:51 +1000
Hmmm, not that easy. One of the major reasons why people left other
languages to develop with Java is the reasonably efficient garbage
collection system. Many a nightmarish debugging session happened when a
coder was trying to find a subtle memory leak caused by unbalanced resource
allocation/deallocation. It would be a big ask for Java programmers to leave
that behind and start messing with how and when to "release/retain".
No offence but I don't care how easy it is to learn, I don't want to learn
ANOTHER damn language! My "personal language cache" is full!
It's hard enough just to be proficient in Java/C++.
The language Foundation/AppKit are written for does matter. The old die-hard
Mac developers will happily take ObjC in their stride and move on. But Apple
won't progress and OSX won't be a success with just the same group of loyal
developers. They'll need a whole lot of new developers to write for OSX and
a large proportion of them will want to do it in Java or C++. ObjC won't
have this wide-spread appeal for future OSX developers.
Mark
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