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"Nifty, though having used both languages I don't know why you would want to use Java instead of Objective-C." Perhaps to facilitate simultaneous development i
by ciscoriordan 18y ago
"Nifty, though having used both languages I don't know why you would want to use Java instead of Objective-C."
Perhaps to facilitate simultaneous development in other environments, like the BlackBerry Java DE.
- tlrobinson 18y agoIt wasn't really clear from the talk, do they abstract away the Cocoa APIs so you're writing standard Java library calls, or is it just a language bridge where you still write to the Cocoa APIs using Java? If it's the latter, then there's really no cross platform advantage.