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Life After Objective C

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6 pointsjonathanpenn9 comments

I think there's some pretty good hints that Apple is going to make MacRuby their next generation language platform.

Don't visit this link. This site breaks the back button; forward and back are changed to navigate between posts.

Hmm. Back button works for me in safari and chrome. What browser are you using? I'll disable the keyboard arrow key navigation for now until I figure out what you mean.

This is chromium on ubuntu. It looks like a chromium bug; lots of mentions of navigation issues, though I don't see a specific report on this yet. alt-left and alt-right do browser back and forward in normal circumstances, but in the presence of the navigation code their behavior appears to change. It appears that browser forward and back buttons continue to work properly in the presence of the navigation code.

Sorry, false alarm!

Yuck! Well, I'll leave off the keyboard navigation for now. It was just a fun diversion for me to write and wasn't critical for the site anyway.

Thanks for the heads up!

tl;dr

The article argues that MacRuby is the future of Mac & iOS software development.

People that complain about languages simply haven't mastered them yet.

Yeah, I don't know why BASIC got so much hate. It was so powerful. There was nothing to complain about.

It serves its purpose. Just like C++, Java, C#, Ruby, Python and Haskell all serve their respective purposes. Fact is, not everyone agrees with your position, nor do they agree with my position.

I would be foolish to attempt to convince you of my point of view. You can write a blog complaining about a language and get commentary from people. I will write code in that language and get money. This is okay with me.

I wasn't complaining about a language. I was arguing that I think I see hints for what direction Apple is moving.

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