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Sure apple promotes Objective C. But that just raises the question: What does Apple see in Objective C? What is its merit to Apple?
by StrawberryFrog 17y ago
Sure apple promotes Objective C. But that just raises the question: What does Apple see in Objective C? What is its merit to Apple?
- ams6110 17y agoWell big chunks of the code base that they bought from NeXT were Obj-C. So there's the legacy issue. And as protomyth said, in the early days of OS X they really tried to convert people to Java but few developers got on board with it. Maybe because most people writing Cocoa apps in the early days were former NEXTSTEP developers and they used what they knew. Using Java to write Cocoa apps probably felt a bit like using COBOL to write .NET apps. You can do it, but it's probably not too fun.