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> If iOS had required Lisp instead of Objective-C, then Lisp would have been popular right now. It could have dragged iOS popularity with it. Pushing, promoti

• protomyth 8y ago
  Given the hype and the company, there was no way Lisp would have drug it down. The only way for it to affect iOS was to provide a worse environment than the web apps. People would have found a way just as the reluctant found a way with Objective-C. Ask Sun about Java and their promotional campaign. When a teacher at a community college in North Dakota gets a call and sent a book to help him decide to teach their language, you can be very effective at pushing.
  • zimpenfish 8y ago
    > People would have found a way just as the reluctant found a way with Objective-C But the people most likely to develop iOS apps at the start were likely already familiar with Objective-C, I think, due to it being the favoured app platform on OSX, no?
    • protomyth 8y ago
      I would have thought the same thing, but if you look at a lot of the early app developers, they did come from other platforms. It was easier for an OS X developer, but there were a lot of new people who complained about Objective-C but just got on with it. A lot of early tutorials are really geared to the bigger group of new developers. On a side note, I really do believe the people behind Swift hate Objective-C and a lot of the old complaints are "solved" by Swift.