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Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by jeremyjh on Saturday June 22, 2019 @09:52PM (#20252796)
Objective C wasn't really a big thing before the iPhone. I know MacOS used it but its not like it had the rich open source community that Java had, and most iOS developers were learning it for the first time. I think this failure wasn't about programming languages; if the platform had succeeded then C# would have been just that much more popular.
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Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by aetherson on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:04PM (#20252836)
There was a it significant first moved advantage for iPhone. For a couple of years, it was effectively the only game in town. That probably got people over a lot of friction
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Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by jarjoura on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:04PM (#20252840)
Obj-C was niche yes, but Obj-C worked really well with C/C++.
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Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by fzort on Sunday June 23, 2019 @08:35AM (#20255072)
Yeah, and with OpenGL ES/OpenAL support it was pretty easy to port C++ games to the iPhone, with just a thin Obj-C wrapper.
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