I'm really more trying to point out that there is a great way to escape the trap being laid for you by Apple and their plans for Objective-C, which is indeed to keep the language in their own privileged domain.
And it really is important enough that anyone considering learning Objective-C today, or even using it, know that there is a way out of it: roll your own walled garden and plant what you like within it, on any platform you can.
I would be willing to wager a small bet that says that the scripted-VM-glommed-in-a-web-of-libs approach to the Platform wars will become more and more a key survival strategy in software development over the next 2 years.
The OS, and indeed Distributions are dead; long live the new King, VM-managed library bundling..
And it really is important enough that anyone considering learning Objective-C today, or even using it, know that there is a way out of it: roll your own walled garden and plant what you like within it, on any platform you can.
I would be willing to wager a small bet that says that the scripted-VM-glommed-in-a-web-of-libs approach to the Platform wars will become more and more a key survival strategy in software development over the next 2 years.
The OS, and indeed Distributions are dead; long live the new King, VM-managed library bundling..