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It is called vendor lock-in. And yeah, it is not only Microsoft with their tecnologies that try/tried to do it.
by yulaow 13y ago
It is called vendor lock-in.
And yeah, it is not only Microsoft with their tecnologies that try/tried to do it.
- Touche 13y agoIt has nothing to do with lock-in. There's nothing stopping people from using Objective C to serve web apps, it's just that no one does it because Objective C is not a pleasant language to work in. People do choose to use Microsoft languages for things other than Windows apps.
- eropple 13y agoObjective-C really is pleasant to use for GUIs. As I noted elsewhere in this thread, I offload everything I can into C++, but between Objective-C and IB, I really enjoy building GUIs in OS X. Anything else, not so much, but, yeah.
- lloeki 13y agoIt is called a vendor providing an API for a platform with useful features implemented, so that one can focus on building solutions to one's problems and not reinvent the wheel. Watch out, the way you said it makes you sound like a free software fanatic/proprietary system hater. I would seriously consider Obj-C on non-OSX systems if it had a better library available (GNUstep doesn't cut it), but that's a chicken-and-egg problem.