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Or, iOS would never took off, because no one would want to write apps for it.
by mamon 8y ago
Or, iOS would never took off, because no one would want to write apps for it.
- zzzcpan 8y agoYeah, there is this weird idea on HN that any language can become popular if some big ecosystem adopts it before it becomes big. The reality is more complicated of course. Familiarity, simplicity, learning curve all matter much more, than people want to believe.
- protomyth 8y agoIf Steve Jobs when announcing the iPhone SDK had said that Apple's way forward was Lisp and how great the Meta-Object Protocol[1] was for the future, developers, regardless of their beliefs, would have gone and made Lisp popular. Some things have the killer use. Look at Javascript, it is not a good enough language to have developed without Netscape putting it into the browser. It had the killer application that you were basically forced to use. I love prototype-based inheritance but even NewtonScript was a better language. 1) Steve Job's videos for NeXT explaining objects were pretty amazing