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Learn Cocoa

Cocoa and Mac OS X’s foundations, based on NeXTSTEP, make it extremely easy to code a graphical application. You doubt? Then check out this tutorial. Without a single line of code you’ll have a basic text editor with font styling (may the power of NeXTSTEP be with you).

The only bit that terrifies me apart is Objective-C. I definitely don’t like. Sure, you have bindings with languages like Python or Java but to unshield the true power of the NeXTSTEP you must code in O-C.

I truly believe that this comes to prove that the Linux community should pay more attention to GnuSTEP and use it as the foundation to a unified Linux development environment.


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  1. Carlos Rodrigues
    Published at January 25th, 2007 at 4:00 am

    I’ve never done anything in Obj-C, but it looks like a nice language. It’s C with classes done right, unlike that C++ monstrosity.

  2. mlopes
    Published at January 25th, 2007 at 4:06 am

    Carlos,

    I also don’t like C++ apart from its efficiency. The problem with C++ is its semantics. The problem with Objective C is its syntax. It’s appalling.