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
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.
