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How is Objective-C a lot better than C++? What do you mean by "the software game industry is wrong too"?
by davedx 15y ago
How is Objective-C a lot better than C++?
What do you mean by "the software game industry is wrong too"?
- zoul 15y agoObjective-C has a very sweet expressivity/complexity ratio.
- dextorious 15y ago1) Objective-C is a very dynamic (think Smalltalk), less cluttered and more nicely designed language than C++, that can just as easy fall back to plain fast C. 2) For writing applications, desktop or mobile, nothing in the C++ libs ecosystem comes close to Cocoa/Touch. 3) For the task under discussion (iOS apps), it's the standard that get's 100% of official support from Apple, C++ is not.
- davedx 15y agoDirectX is a pretty nice lib in the C++ ecosystem. OpenGL is comparable but I'd argue DX usually leads the cutting edge of graphics capabilities.
- dextorious 15y agoYes, it is. But on mobile at least, I don't think there is much difference, is it? I mean, if Windows Phone 7 uses DirectX, that is, compare to OpenGL ES.
- xenophanes 15y agoThe game industry writes buggy and poorly performing (relative to how they could be) games in C++ instead of writing better and better optimized games in superior languages.