On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 March 2013 15:34, Evan Dandrea <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Evan Dandrea [2013-03-04 11:24 +0000]: >> Developers of all stripes have written over 700,000 applications for iOS in >> Objective-C. What's so bad about telling people that they should write C++ >> with >> UI in Javascript? >> > > Or C with libnih support =)))) > > Regards, > > Dmitrijs. > > ps. just kidding =)
:) I think that instead of saying "lower level languages are hard!" and then doing a lot of work to layer higher-level languages on them, we should invest that effort in providing comprehensive documentation and tooling to make the development experience wonderful in that one core language. Like I said, Apple disproved the notion that the secret to lots of high quality client-side applications is a language that is comparatively easy (at the expense of being slow and bloated in *practice* [1]). 1: https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-are-slow -- upstart-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
