Re: Cocoa, Java vs. Objective-C
Re: Cocoa, Java vs. Objective-C
- Subject: Re: Cocoa, Java vs. Objective-C
- From: Nick Müller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:22:24 +0100
On 21.02.2002 at 12:48 Uhr, Flemming Bengtsson wrote:
>
and would like to know your experiences on whether to choose Java or
>
Objective-C as your language.
In "Cocoa programming Mac OS X" A. Hillegass names a chapter "Don't use
Java to write Cocoa applications".
I'd like to sign my name across that chapter.
I started a project in Java, only to discover that:
- some APIs are missing or buggy
- Java is slow and takes long time to start up
- close to nobody will answer any questions about Java in this or any
other list.
If only that book would have been published when I decided for Java. I
had to rewrite in Obj-C and didn't regret that decission at all. I can
only urge you to take the time to learn Obj-C!
The only pro for Java might be that you already know that language. But
if you know Java and some basics in C, you will quickly adopt to Obj-C.
The only con for Obj-C is that it takes more care for getting the
alloc-stuff right. But that ain't a huge drawback.
Nick
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