http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/21/from-win32-to-cocoa/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/04/21/from-win32-to-cocoa/#comment-283019 LKM Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:49:45 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=1707#comment-283019 In my opinion, .NET/C# (or many of the other neat supported languages) is a lot nicer and more developer-friendly than Cocoa/Objective-C. Also, Visual Studio is braincandy. It makes everything so easy and seamless that your capacity for writing code actually starts to deteriorate to the point that it becomes difficult to be productive in a plain text editor (or a less "advanced" IDE such as Xcode). The issue with .NET is that you often have to call through to the old APIs to get the cool Windows functions, and this is where things start to get really, really messy. In my opinion, .NET/C# (or many of the other neat supported languages) is a lot nicer and more developer-friendly than Cocoa/Objective-C. Also, Visual Studio is braincandy. It makes everything so easy and seamless that your capacity for writing code actually starts to deteriorate to the point that it becomes difficult to be productive in a plain text editor (or a less "advanced" IDE such as Xcode). The issue with .NET is that you often have to call through to the old APIs to get the cool Windows functions, and this is where things start to get really, really messy.

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