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Judging by the title, I figured we were in for a screed by an Obj-C holdout, but JavaScript? You want us to use JavaScript for iOS development? Did you forget
by Albright 11y ago
Judging by the title, I figured we were in for a screed by an Obj-C holdout, but JavaScript? You want us to use JavaScript for iOS development?
Did you forget the period in time where Steve Jobs was making that argument and even he got BTFO?
- InfiniteEntropy 11y agoDid you forget the period in time where JS is essentially the most active language on github? (That is to say, now? http://githut.info/ http://githut.info/ )
- jbob2000 11y agoI think you missed a critical part of the article, where he quotes the creator of WordPress as saying that PHP will just be used to communicate with the db, with javascript doing the UI work (I'm paraphrasing a little). I think that's what he's getting at. That writing your whole solution in Swift or Obj-C doesn't make sense, because then you need to write a whole new solution in Java for Android. Why not have the common components in Javascript, with the specifics in the platform specific lanaguage?
- harryf 11y agoMeanwhile Wordpress has failed so completely to establish itself on mobile (e.g. SDKs developers can use to make their Wordpress content present in their apps) that whole startups like Contentful ( https://www.contentful.com https://www.contentful.com ) are springing up to fill the gap