July 2012: Objective-C Ranked Higher in Popularity than C++

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Post by cillosis » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 3:05 PM UTC

July 2012: Objective-C Ranked Higher in Popularity than C++
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Re: July 2012: Objective-C Ranked Higher in Popularity than C++

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Post by jballanc » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 3:37 PM UTC

> C++ is used heavily in large high-performance systems whereas Objective-C is mainly used in the mobile apps industry.

Try, "Objective-C is mainly used on iOS". If you look at the before-and-after picture of Obj-C, it is painfully clear that the only reason for its popularity is iOS. One must wonder what would be possible on the iOS platform if other languages were given a fair shot at that pie...

Re: July 2012: Objective-C Ranked Higher in Popularity than C++

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Post by J3L2404 » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 3:40 PM UTC

jballanc wrote: post #2

> C++ is used heavily in large high-performance systems whereas Objective-C is mainly used in the mobile apps industry. Try, "Objective-C is mainly used on iOS". If you look at the before-and-after picture of Obj-C, it is painfully clear that the only reason for its popularity is iOS. One must wonder what would be possible on the iOS platform if other languages were given a fair shot at that pie...

You can write apps in C or C++ on iOS if you like, but the framework (Cocoa) is everything.