Re: Learning Cocoa (OT!: Small Language Rant)
Re: Learning Cocoa (OT!: Small Language Rant)
- Subject: Re: Learning Cocoa (OT!: Small Language Rant)
- From: Andre John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:48:41 -0400
On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 03:50 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:
I know I don't and I want to write OSX applications in
Java using Foundation/AppKit, not Swing.
Knock yourself out. Of course, you're much more likely to get help with
Cocoa apps if you're writing in Obj-C, but it's your time to waste.
[rant on]
This is true, also I believe that if you want to use Java please leave
Cocoa alone and use AWT or Swing instead. Java was designed to be a
cross platform application environment and linking it with Cocoa,
which is currently MacOS X only, kinda kills the advantages of Java.
Also how many people gripped when Microsoft was adding a Windows only
API to Java?
IMHO, Objective C is a nice language and has many advantages
over C++, for starters it is an object-oriented language - yes,
so is C++, but not to the same extent: see no STL in
ObjC :-). Also by developping in Objective C, versus Java, you
will be able to take full advantage of a natively compiled
application.
My point of view in programming, is that you should use the
best tool for the task at hand. In this case Java for portability
and ObjC to really take advantage of MacOS X.
[rant off]
Andre
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