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Sure, 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
by potatolicious 13y ago
Sure, 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.