Re: Which language to get started with cocoa development?
Re: Which language to get started with cocoa development?
- Subject: Re: Which language to get started with cocoa development?
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:16:28 +1100
On 31 Dec 2008, at 7:22 pm, Achim Domma wrote:
- ObjC looks interesing, but would be a new language to learn. I
like to learn new languages, but I also prefer to do one step after
another. So learning Cocoa and Obj-C toghether could be frustrating.
Depending on what sort of application you have in mind, Obj-C is
likely to be the most fruitful approach. I don't think any other
languages allow you access to all of Cocoa, only select parts.
If you know C, Obj-C is a very small extension. It is a strict
superset of C(99), and the extra stuff in Obj-C will take you a very
short time to learn. It looks a little strange at first, but the
syntax is very logical. If you already know another object-oriented
language like C++ then it will be easy, I'm certain of it.
Personally, I learned enough Obj-C in a day (after more than a decade
of C++) to get started with Cocoa. Cocoa itself will take a fair bit
longer to get really comfortable with, so the reality is that learning
Obj-C will be a tiny fraction of the effort needed. So choosing a
familiar but non-native language would be, in my opinion, an error.
--Graham
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