Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Jun 2008 09:36 UTC
Ars has just published part three in their series "From Win32 to Cocoa", in which Peter Bright explains why he thinks "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it." Part one dealt with the history of both development platforms, part two dived into .Net, different types of programmers, and Windows Vista, and part three details the development platform and tools Apple has to offer, and in what ways they are superior or inferior to Windows'.
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stop complaining about Java and OS X. There are hardly any applications that require java 1.6 and most of those are simply compiled with 1.6 and do not really use any features not present in 1.5. Also there is a 1.6 for mac although it is still not a final version. Yes it sucks that even though Sun java is not open source it takes so long to get it to MacOS but the problem is nowhere near the magnitude that it's being presented.
To me the best thing about OS X compared to windows is that you get free and very powerful development tools. Xcode is great but then again there is the issue of objective-c ... Oh and the author of the article commends Apple for being able to say enough is enough but they paid dearly for that ability and are still paying for it. Adobe anyone? I guess this is the risk of relying on 3rd party vendors but what I really respect in Apple is that they acknowledge the risks and try to offer alternatives to their valued customer base. A good example is the office suite. While it's not as powerful as MS's own it is a lot cheaper and quite capable.