Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)
Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)
- Subject: Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)
- From: Annard Brouwer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:03:53 -0700
On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 06:56 , David W. Halliday wrote:
Regardless, Apple has lost a superior tool for native Cocoa
development
on the client and standalone sides, as well as squandering a reason for
using Apple hardware on the server side.
Not only that, but Apple has taken away a competetive advantage for
Cocoa software developers: by forcing us to use Java the playing field
has been leveled for those other Java developer shops out there. (Read
http://paulgraham.com/paulgraham/avg.html for the competitive edge Lisp
gave him.) The more so because even if I use Java for desktop EOF
applications, why should I limit myself to a tiny market whereas my
competitors can run their applications on the Wintel, Linux and Sun
machines out there? This can make a big difference.
My conclusion would be: dump Cocoa and WO and jump ship to the Java
camp. I could still use my Mac to write Java desktop applications but I
would not deploy them on that platform. Too bad Apple.
Of course, I don't want to do this... writing Cocoa applications is much
more fun than Swing...
Annard
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Annard Brouwer
Senior Software Architect
ObjectWarehouse Inc.