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IMO it's more like C# and .NET than that Apple is making it tough to not use Objective-C. First look at .NET... there are a lot of .NET developers who think of

IMO it's more like C# and .NET than that Apple is making it tough to not use Objective-C. First look at .NET... there are a lot of .NET developers who think of .NET and C# development as the same... but there are also .NET developers using Ruby, VB#, F#, C++ .NET, and a growing number of scripting languages. What I've seen of the Cocoa environment isn't Apple restricting developers from using languages other than Objective-C, but rather that Apple is putting its own efforts into Objective-C. I would agree that Apple seems to be making Java hard to choose for programming the mac lately, but I'd call that progress, and therefore a positive, not a negative ;)

protomyth 17y ago
Apple, for a while, tried pretty hard to make Java a first class citizen of the Cocoa framework, but it just was a bad fit. Non-dynamic languages don't really do well with dynamic frameworks. It is interesting that the drop in love for Java occurred around the same time that Carbon was shown the door.
- Tamerlin 17y ago
  I guess they gave up on fighting that uphill battle, eh? :D It's no loss... it's just Java. Old... creaky... and why are we still using it again? (Oh, right -- for the progress-averse developers.)