I have to question how important the choice of language is. Nobody[+] was writing Objective-C before the iOS SDK came but that didn’t stunt its popularity. Go

I have to question how important the choice of language is. Nobody[+] was writing Objective-C before the iOS SDK came but that didn’t stunt its popularity. Google ended up writing their own Java runtime and ended up getting in a messy fight with Oracle over it. Microsoft had their own developer platform (arguably better than anything the Android ecosystem had to offer) so it made total sense to capitalise on it. The iPhone taught us that however obscure or bad your ecosystem is, developers will come to your platform if demand is there. [+] (obviously Mac developers were writing Objective C - I’m unfairly rounding that down to “nobody”)