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> Apple languages don’t reach the top-10 of languages used on GitHub. While this is likely impacted by the Objective-C/Swift split, it still shows how niche dev
by EvilEy3 6y ago
> Apple languages don’t reach the top-10 of languages used on GitHub. While this is likely impacted by the Objective-C/Swift split, it still shows how niche development for that platform is.
Michelin 3-star restaurants don't reach the top used in world either.
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoI think a more apt analogy would be the 'soup nazi' and your soup can only be eaten in special, overpriced 'soup nazi' bowls.
- alxlaz 6y ago> Michelin 3-star restaurants don't reach the top used in world either. On the other hand, Michelin 3-star restaurants will typically give you cutlery along with your dinner, instead of telling you that you've got a drawer full of cutlery at home anyway. I'm not at all convinced this is the right analogy ;-). The more likely reason is the one Macha mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632710 . Apple's environment has a tradition of paid, closed-source development, and any cross-platform tools that also support macOS or iOS are unlikely to be built with Apple's macOS/iOS-only tools.