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An important factor in choosing a language is platform. I'm not going to choose Go or D to write an iOS app in, because it would be painful and buggy, if it's e
by penpapersw 9y ago
An important factor in choosing a language is platform. I'm not going to choose Go or D to write an iOS app in, because it would be painful and buggy, if it's even possible in the first place. I'm restricted to Objective-C(++) if I want it to really be a high quality & native app.
- johncolanduoni 9y agoMost languages with a C FFI (and ARM/Mach-O compiler support) can do pretty well on iOS. Rust bindings to Objective-C APIs are pretty painless for example.
- klickverbot 9y agoD can interface with Objective-C just fine. The Apple-provided tooling will indeed be more convenient for the developer, but the result the end user sees will be a "high quality & native app" just the same.