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: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:27:26 -0500
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Keary Suska <email@hidden> wrote:
> "True" or "native" Cocoa is only available for Objective-C and Java API.
> There are API ports to to other languages, Ruby is one that I am aware of,
> but they are not really Cocoa. They are just Cocoa-like. That may enough for
> your purposes.
The Java bridge is no longer maintained, and has been deprecated since
10.4. PyObjC and RubyCocoa, on the other hand, are
officially-supported bridges. And they aren't "ports." PyObjC, for
example, does most of its work by runtime introspection. The MacRuby
project looks even more interesting, as it implements Ruby 1.9
directly on top of the Objective-C runtime, and is maintained by
Apple.
In short, Java was the past while Ruby and Python are the future of
supported non-ObjC development.
--Kyle Sluder
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