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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 5 Jun 2014

    ‘Why does Apple create a new programming language? Because they want to lock you in.’—Joe Armstrong

    12:31 AM - 5 Jun 2014
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      2. Scott Hanselman‏Verified account @shanselman 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral ya disappointed it isn't open source.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @shanselman

        @shanselman It feels like Apple’s ‘fuck you’ to Android & folks like Apportable. Effect will be even greater lock-in (also Metal, CloudKit).

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      2. Indy Johar‏ @indy_johar 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @aral

        “@aral: ‘ Apple create a new programming language? Because they want to lock you in.” the new state - language, platform, currency, data

        2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
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      2. JeanLouis Villecroze‏ @CocoaGeek 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @aral

        "@aral: ‘Why does Apple create a new programming language? Because they want to lock you in.’—Joe Armstrong" // what if open sourced?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Steve Wart‏ @swartable 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @CocoaGeek

        @CocoaGeek what if they called it C#?

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      4. JeanLouis Villecroze‏ @CocoaGeek 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @swartable

        @swartable true that C# is mainly a MS thing, but one can still use c++ to write modern Windows app

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Steve Wart‏ @swartable 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @CocoaGeek

        @CocoaGeek interesting difference is that .NET runtime is not popular internally at MS, whereas objc runtime is deep in Cocoa

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      1. Raul Portales‏ @sla_shalafi 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I disagree, ObjectiveC was a much better tool for locking app developers.

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      1. Jim Cervone‏ @jim_cervone 5 Jun 2014
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        @aral dude… what?

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      1. Salvador Jiménez‏ @sjimenez 6 Jun 2014
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        RT @aral: ‘Why does Apple create a new programming language? Because they want to lock you in.’—Joe Armstrong

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      2. Ethan Parker‏ @EthanDParker 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @CameronBytheway because obj-c worked so well on droid and windows :)

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      3. Cameron Bytheway‏ @CameronBytheway 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @EthanDParker

        @EthanDParker those aren't the only platforms in the world. I can easily compile obj-c on linux

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      4. Ethan Parker‏ @EthanDParker 6 Jun 2014
        Replying to @CameronBytheway

        @CameronBytheway I stand corrected. I'm not even mad.

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      1. Fabio Cionini‏ @fabiocionini 5 Jun 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral well, not that Objective-C was so broadly used anywhere else

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      1. 𝙾𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗  🇪🇺‏ @ojmason 5 Jun 2014
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        @aral To be fair, with ObjC you're already pretty much locked in anyway.

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      1. Martin Beeby‏ @thebeebs 5 Jun 2014
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        @aral it seems to me they are trying to lower the bar. ObjC's concepts are so different to a Java or C# dev that it stops many from trying

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      1. Tony Lenzi‏ @tonylenzi 5 Jun 2014
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        @aral because objective C is used so many other places? They're just trying to bring in progs who have no C like experience

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