>I have seen so many great Mac apps that were unusable in the end because of constant crashes. I doubt this would be the case if developers had picked some high

>I have seen so many great Mac apps that were unusable in the end because of constant crashes. I doubt this would be the case if developers had picked some higher level language. Yes, then they would have been unusable because of slow performance and regular gc pauses, like almost any Java program I ever met. It's a lot faster now that it used to be around 2002+ with the Swing of the day, but still lags perceptibly behind C/C++ for UI work. And don't even think using it for a multimedia app (video/sound) etc, or a game, except if you delegate all the work to a hardware accelerated C/C++ 3D backend.