Monotouch believes Apple's final 4.0 SDK may give more wiggle room. (opens in new tab)

(mono-project.com)

2 pointsAnneTheAgile16y ago4 comments

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Steve Jobs is not as optimistic: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/monotouch/2010-April/00187...

See also this article on AppleInsider : http://bit.ly/aVCuKz

I'm not privy to the technical details, but it would seem Apple banning other programming languages than Objective-C etc. was not an ideological decision, but that it was based on the new requirements of the multitasking feature in iPhone OS 4.0.

Can anyone with more technical know-how weigh in on this discussion ?

cheald16y ago

That argument has no weight at all. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253621 has a good dissection of it.

xsmasher16y ago

Seems unlikely. What trouble could an application translated from another language cause that a custom C++ / C program can not? Other than simple inefficiency of course.

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xsmasher16y ago

Steve Jobs is not as optimistic: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/monotouch/2010-April/00187...

martinpannier16y ago

See also this article on AppleInsider : http://bit.ly/aVCuKz

Can anyone with more technical know-how weigh in on this discussion ?

cheald16y ago

That argument has no weight at all. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253621 has a good dissection of it.

xsmasher16y ago

Seems unlikely. What trouble could an application translated from another language cause that a custom C++ / C program can not? Other than simple inefficiency of course.

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