News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others. Parent comment

Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by tumult on Thursday April 08, 2010 @08:21PM (#1251498)
I could do it with assembly. But it would be stupid, and wasteful. Objective-C is not the tool for every job. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by joubert on Thursday April 08, 2010 @11:51PM (#1251811)
Do you have empirical evidence to prove which language(s) are better than C, C++, Objective-C, and JavaScript in creating applications on the iPhone's runtime and UI model?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others by MutantSushi on Friday April 09, 2010 @01:39AM (#1251985)
Empirical evidence? Ask the guys Apple is funding to do MacRuby.
[ Parent | on HN ]