Do we all agree that the sole reason behind sticking with Obj-C is exclusivity rather than performance? Sure there may be slight overhead involved with managed languages and GC (we know this from Java and .NET), but smartphones are now clocking in at 1GHz with 512MB+ RAM and Moore's law means that a 20% overhead will have been offset in a mere 3-4 months time.
Hell, Android still kicks butt even if we have to wait another month or so for the JIT'er to be turned on in 2.2/Froyo. Add to that, the benefits of sandboxing which you've gained by virtue of the managed platform. /Casper On Apr 26, 8:50 am, wilfred <[email protected]> wrote: > Listening to the last episode right now, in particular the comments on > Apple's decision to ban anything but Objective C based apps from the > iPhone and iPad. Next to me, on top of a pile of books, there is a > book opened up on a page that has some ties with what is being > discussed. It's part of an open letter to Steve Jobs, dating from > 1996: > > "Dear Steve, > .... > Drop Objective C. There's no money to be made supporting yet another > object language. Use C++ with SOM and you;ll get all the same benefits > without the headaches. If you don't like C++, use Smalltalk with CORBA > - it will also give you the same results. > ...." > > It's part of Robert Orfali's book on Distributed Object Computing. I > think it's pretty hilarious, looking back. Rather than scaring > developers off - as the authors expected - Objective C is now being > used to scare people away from targeting anything but Steve's > platform. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
