Forbidden Dock Tile Plug-Ins
Karsten Kusche reports that the NSDockTilePlugIn property list key is banned from the Mac App Store.
Archive for September 15, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012 [Tweets]
Blatant Piracy in the App Store
AicooSoft has copied our various app descriptions verbatim, co-opted quotes about our apps from the press, and pasted screen shots of our apps pixel-for-pixel into their own screen shots.
Update (2012-09-17): Apple has removed the apps.
Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses of Objective-C
Objective-C is a compromise by design, and it is utterly unembarrassed by this. It is, I think, a good compromise, finding a sweet spot where one has very convenient access to low-overhead constructs for performance (C and C++ can be linked in and even intermingled with ObjC) while still having a nice dynamic messaging system supporting flexible late-bound polymorphism.
It’s also a compromise from the ’80s. (Relatively) recent advances in functional programming (among other spheres) sometimes make me wonder if we could strike a better one today.
