On Jun 14, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Jeff Pritchard wrote:
I was just wondering how long Java cocoa development has been an option, and wondering if I'm an extreme minority at this point, with very few developers using java for cocoa development yet
There has been a few threads on this recently. What follows is my personal opinion (obviously). I knew Java before I ever touched Cocoa, but I'm glad I decided to go with Objective-C instead.
If use Java, you're getting the watered-down version of Cocoa. You miss out on some great stuff like Core Data. You also have longer startup times and a larger memory footprint.
I think Cocoa applications in Java probably seemed like a good idea when it first showed up ~5-7 years ago, but it turns out that the Mac OS X community really embraced Objective-C, so that's where Apple has focused its efforts.
If you look at the list archives and Cocoa sample code, Java is virtually nonexistent. I only personally know one person who wrote a Cocoa-Java app, and he's since decided to port it to Objective-C (he has 10 years of Java experience).