Posted 4/20/2011 2:39 am
When I see jobs for iPhone/iPad programmers, they always want a laundry list of technologies.
After playing with Objective-C/iOS for several months, I don't see how someone could be a wizard with a laundry list of technologies. Obj-C/iOS is a full time job in itself.
Posted 4/20/2011 4:22 am
I grew up with NextStep machines and Objective C. It REALLY cracks me up that it is back in 2011 and is serving as a test to see who are the real men (computer scientists) and who are the faggot HTML code monkeys, desperately trying to get iPhone on their resumes!!!!!!
I used those APIs when it was obvious what the "NS" in front of them meant
Posted 1/6/2012 8:39 pm
It really is a horrible evolutionary step backwards. And in typical Apple way, every deficiency is purported to be a feature. It doesn't throw exceptions while calling methods on a null pointer, that hides errors. But hey, "IT's a feature!". It's a half-assed papering over of C. Private membership is just a suggestion. Plus, what is going on with the weird smalltalk-C bastardised syntax. Curly braces somewhere, @annotations somewhere else. In the CORE language. To define a CLASS!!! Like, WTF??? The language is obsolete. It should have died with NextStep. We have more mature languages now. Let's code with Java (borrow the syntax, write your own API and runtime), or C++, or even JavaScript!, ActionScript, VisualBasic even. Anything!!!
won't be picking up Objective-C anytime soon...
