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Also, people at Apple like Objective-C and its Smalltalk influences. For those of us who've been in the NeXT/Apple ecosystem a long time, it's clear that employ
by dottrap 13y ago
Also, people at Apple like Objective-C and its Smalltalk influences. For those of us who've been in the NeXT/Apple ecosystem a long time, it's clear that employees at Apple see Ruby as more interesting than say Javascript because of the Smalltalk influences. If any shift were to occur, money is on Ruby. But Apple likes Objective-C and no shift seems likely and we also saw what happened with MacRuby and the author leaving to do RubyMotion.
- jfb 13y agoAnd they've invested a lot in the tooling and environment. It's not like they're just running a stock gcc toolchain; they've put a lot of very smart people on very hard problems in the language space.
- dottrap 13y agoAgreed. And another problem is that all these interpreted languages are terrible at exploiting parallelism which is a problem as we get more processor cores. They were able to solve this in C by inventing Blocks and GCD.