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Just a quick snippet on the future of Cocoa. John Gruber of Daring Fireball has posted a summary of posts on dynamic scripting languages for Cocoa development. If you’re not completely new to programming, then you’ll find the conversations interesting as they’re not strictly Cocoa related.

One of the major points I took away from reading The Mythical Man-Month was that the shift from lower level, to higher level languages increases productivity. It’s true, I can think through code much easier in C than I can in Assembly.

It would seem that with the advent of dynamic “scripting” languages like Ruby and Python that C is becoming the new assembly. It’s easier to visualize the “scripting” code and thus nicer to work with when writing code. Even if it is a bit slower during execution.

So does this mean that Apple will replace Objective-C with Ruby or Python as the de-facto language of choice for Cocoa developers? Or will Objective-C 2.0 stem the tide of change? I don’t know, but it will be interesting to watch the future unfold as Leopard is released later this year.

This entry was posted Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 4:01 pm and is filed under OS X Leopard, Cocoa. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.