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We've been using it for over a decade (small part of a major defense company). We do not (and have never) targeted any Apple operating systems.
by Moschops 14y ago
We've been using it for over a decade (small part of a major defense company). We do not (and have never) targeted any Apple operating systems.
- exim 14y agoVery interesting. Could you please give us some more details?
- zerostar07 14y agoIs that some strategic choice? Like, less danger of being hacked or sth?
- spoiledtechie 14y agoProbably a customer requirement. You don't do something for a contract in the government, unless the government requires or asks for it specifically.
- yardie 14y agoCould you give some background on how that decision was made? I've only seen objC used in only a few situations. Usually academic and businesses that bought into NEXT computers. I've met a few neck beards who used it in Linux on GNUStep projects. Outside of Apple and the few examples I haven't met anyone who has decided that objC was an obvious choice.
- mturmon 14y agoobjC was common for a time in the NYC financial industry, because of in-house use of NeXT computers.
- Moschops 14y agoBy request, more information. We never ran any NeXT machines. There was no (and frequently continues to be, thankfully - we've got some good negotiators who manage to convince the customer that picking the language themselves is often not smart) customer requirement on language. As I recall, a number of candidate languages were examined as a replacement for C (which was what we were mostly using at the time) and the lightness of Obj-C, its Smalltalk-like object model and the ease of training newcomers to go from C to Obj-C, were amongst the reasons.