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by kcl 4942 days ago
> Windows devs are never going to use Obj-C for their web development

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.