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by antipax
4942 days ago
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Agreed on your last point. I stopped reading halfway through because of all the (questionable) assumptions the author made. I'm a massive fan of Obj-C and I think it could be a great tool for web development, but (other than potential advantages when interacting with Obj-C clients) I don't really see it as having any advantages over other platforms. Windows devs are never going to use Obj-C for their web development and I'm not really convinced OSX/Linux devs are not going to move away from Ruby/Python/PHP/Java, either. |
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In the second half of the note there's a point about nearly 100% of web developers at major web companies using Macs. I'm not sure what percent of the web runs Windows (or was developed on Windows). The only major sites I know of that run Windows are the StackOverflow sites. Of course, that doesn't rule out Windows powering some reasonable percentage (including corporate backends), which I'm sure it does. It's just evidence that Windows isn't the pace setter.
> Ruby/Python/PHP/Java
PHP simply doesn't work for long-running processes. Java and Java-like languages tend to replace Ruby and Python for long-running processes on large sites, and that's the target here.
At one point Java was something Sun had to push to get people to use.