2005-12-26 6:26 pm
Can Apple do Better than Objective-C? by Jay
Can Apple do Better than Objective-C?
a language battle royale between C# and Objective-C. I can’t believe after Christmas I get back onto a computer and find out I missed this. I want to jump into the melee but have to go to bed to go to work. But man, this is what I was hoping would have happened at EAA (Rentzsch almost did it).
I think a lot of people are in denial about Objective-C having major short comings. Objective-C is a ton better than C++, harder to compare to C# and Java just because of the static vs dynamic typing philosophies, but very clunky compared with Ruby, Python, and Smalltalk. Objective-C is a very good object oriented C and so if you want C there’s nothing better, but if you don’t care about C it can be an exhausting language because you will be falling back to C a lot (but a lot of that maybe more due to lack of libraries).
Update: Eh, too many people post garbage, ended up with not very interesting comments.