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Boosting this comment, Apple tried to make Java a first class citizen twice between WebObjects and a Cocoa bridge. Developers did not want that.
by Moto7451 4y ago
Boosting this comment, Apple tried to make Java a first class citizen twice between WebObjects and a Cocoa bridge. Developers did not want that.
- pjmlp 4y agoThe story goes around a bit different, first of all, Web Objects was fully migrated to Java, and the last big user of it was the iTunes store. Secondly, the main reason for the Cocoa bridge was not to force developers to use Java, rather they were uncertain that a community grown in Object Pascal and C++, would be happy to jump into Objective-C and its syntax full of [] and @. When they saw that Objective-C wasn't having any adoption blockers, they dropped Cocoa Bridge.