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You just did. Beyond that, encountering a 'substantial number' of them is irrelevant. I've not personally encountered a substantial number of people who like p
by bobwaycott 13y ago
You just did.
Beyond that, encountering a 'substantial number' of them is irrelevant. I've not personally encountered a substantial number of people who like programming in Perl, but it is not inconceivable that such people exist.
- mikeash 13y agoThis is why I finished my comment with this sentence: "I'm sure there are exceptions, but not enough for GNUStep to get traction." When we're talking about why GNUStep never took off, "substantial number" is highly relevant.
- bobwaycott 13y agoTrue. But that same sentiment can be communicated without trying to corral developers into two arbitrary groups. There are plenty of other reasons, in addition to the lack of a substantial number of Objective-C (not just iOS) developers. One of the reasons, I think, is a distinct lack of notability for GNUStep. Anyway, this is a pretty silly line of disagreement. :)
- mikeash 13y agoBut that's exactly what I've observed: nearly all ObjC developers fit into one of those two categories, and that's why roughly nobody wants to bother with GNUStep. I suppose I could have made some different point instead, but I'm generally going to make points about the stuff I've seen.
- jtc331 13y agoPerhaps the reason those ObjC fans of the language itself seem to be smaller in number by your metric is that there are other reasons for avoiding GNUStep--namely, that it's GNU. If you've grown up with OSX etc., then you're more likely to be BSD type person (thinking primarily from a licensing perspective here), and the FSF's push viral "software freedom" is a big turn-off.
- bobwaycott 13y agoAnother excellent reason. I concur.