Re:Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
by wslh on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:45PM
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I did a few things in Obj-C and I only regretted the memory handling stuff. I really liked the performance, reflexibility capabilities (reverse engineering classes is almost trivial) and smalltalk like style. I will not choose it for any project but it gives me the taste that there were more options around C/C++
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Re:Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
by pjmlp on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:34PM
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There has been plenty of options back in the day, it was guaranteed that C and C++ would take over everything as they did during the late 1990's.
Even the Object Pascal to C++ transition at Apple was mostly caused by increased UNIX adoption, and Apple programmers wanting to offer similar experiences, thus MPW was born.
Same on other platforms, until C and C++ eventually won everywhere, at least until several new kids decided to challenge them in various fronts.
One that you seldom see nowadays, outside games, is pure GUI frameworks using C or C++.