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Objective-C has nothing to do with UI. BTW: The first web server has been developed in Objective-C.
by Tom9811 13y ago
Objective-C has nothing to do with UI. BTW: The first web server has been developed in Objective-C.
- potatolicious 13y agoSure, and Amazon.com used to be served from a monolithic C code base - that we did it before (or had to do it before) doesn't make it the best tool now. All of this reminds me a little of the whole "let's do EVERYTHING in JS!" trend - while technically impressive I simply don't see the point of hammering a square peg into a round hole when there's a round peg nearby you can use. Re: Obj-C and UI. Obj-C makes it really easy to write highly performant UIs because it's reasonably close to C. You can hit up OpenGL and other extremely fast drawing libs in a really performant way, without invoking any cumbersome hooks or wrappers (see: writing and interfacing native code in .NET). Writing insanely fast and visually complex UIs in Obj-C is a breeze. Its proximity to C is a strength in client-side dev, but it's a liability on the server.
- Tom9811 13y agoReRe: The ability to write UI code in Objective-C easy is connected to its late binding. For the same reason it is easy to write services. On Objective-Cloud you have to do /no/ configuration about your service's APIs in external files in a different syntax and so on. You simply define that in your Objective-C code as usual. (= As you would do with classes and protocols in your local code.) I think that this sounds like a good tool for the job.