Re: Cocoa Developer in Training: Language Question (ObjC or Java)?
Re: Cocoa Developer in Training: Language Question (ObjC or Java)?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Developer in Training: Language Question (ObjC or Java)?
- From: Charles Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:54:03 +1100
Thomas Lachand-Robert propagated the following meme:
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I was myself in a very similar position one year ago. Unfortunately, I was
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not so smart as you are, and didn't take advice. So I made the wrong
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decision, and learned Java. Six months later I just gave up and now I
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really enjoy programming Cocoa with Obj-C.
I'm in a different position - I've spent the last three years as a Java
hacker. J2EE is my day job, and I'm doing quite alright by it. On the
other hand, I'd love to code stuff for OSX, just because it's so damn
cool.
I've seen a lot of discussion of the cons of using Java to talk directly
to Cocoa. That's convinced me I need to learn Objective C.
What I'd like to hear more of is what happens when you use Obj-C to
run the Controller portion of your application, and have that custom
controller use existing Java libraries. This would (I figure) minimise
calls across the bridge, and solve many of the static typing problems
since the Java code never needs to know that it's talking to a strange
system.
Charles Miller