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Java was supposed to be the primary programming language for OS X. That's why they renamed OpenStep to Cocoa (Java and Cocoa go great together). But AppKit wa
by thought_alarm 6y ago
Java was supposed to be the primary programming language for OS X. That's why they renamed OpenStep to Cocoa (Java and Cocoa go great together).
But AppKit was still pure Objective-C, and bridging between AppKit's Obj-C APIs and the Java language presented problems. 3rd-party developers (eventually) preferred the write directly in Objective-C and Apple dropped the Java bridge some years later.