News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT. Parent comment

Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by ksec on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:28AM (#23517850)
Well Objective-C wasn't doing well before iPhone. Then the smartphone revolution started and you are all forced to use it.

Ruby also never had much if any cooperate backing. MRI / CRuby is still by and large improved by people in their free time. It wasn't until the past 2 may be 3 years did Github and Shopify had some interest in the Ruby Runtime.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by pjmlp on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:28AM (#23524086)
In US, because plenty of us were already using J2ME, Brew and Symbian C++ before iPhone happened.
[ Parent | on HN ]