Re: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using it?
Re: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using it?
- Subject: Re: If Object-C is "the" language, then why is no one using it?
- From: Niels Peter Strandberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:27:22 +0100
On sxndag, nov 17, 2002, at 13:13 Europe/Copenhagen, David Remahl wrote:
Tell that to Adobe, Quark etc.
...who already have extreme ammounts of C code in released and future
products...code which is difficult to use in Java programs. Adobe isn't
developing Java desktop apps, are they?
Sorry, what I meant was that, there is no reason for Adobe and Quark,
to use Object-C and the Cocoa framework, except for the GUI. Since they
want there apps to run Windows, and in Acrobats case Linux/Unix too. If
the cocoa framework was available on both linux, unix, win then they
might have a choice!
Java's success depends a whole lot more on
the adaption it gets in the developer community, since it can't use
compiled
C libraries.
Java's success does not depend on anything, it is already a success!
No, not on the desktop.
That is correct, and that is really one of the things that Java lacks!
Many of the GUI apps sucks!
That is one of the things that .NET is doing well, using it Java/C/C++
language C#.
If Apple is only 5% of the market, then it is bad business to make it
hard(er) for win, unix developer to port apps to the mac, by requiring
them to use Objec-C if they want to use the cocoa framework.
As I said, learning Objective-C is not a lot of work, compared to
learning
the framework. Few desktop apps overall are Java, anyway.
To know a new language and it framework, will take you a lot of time
with trial and error.
niels Peter
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