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: François Frisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:53:30 -0800
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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.
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I'm in a different position - I've spent the last three years as a Java
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hacker. J2EE is my day job, and I'm doing quite alright by it. On the
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other hand, I'd love to code stuff for OSX, just because it's so damn
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cool.
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I've seen a lot of discussion of the cons of using Java to talk directly
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to Cocoa. That's convinced me I need to learn Objective C.
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What I'd like to hear more of is what happens when you use Obj-C to
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run the Controller portion of your application, and have that custom
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controller use existing Java libraries. This would (I figure) minimise
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calls across the bridge, and solve many of the static typing problems
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since the Java code never needs to know that it's talking to a strange
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system.
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Charles Miller
Isn't that what a WebObjects/Cocoa app does? I haven't really had a look
into it ( I don't think anyone has) but that is what I understood at WWDC.
Frangois