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New Apple Rules Support Objective-C, C, C++
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-04-22
As anyone who's gone near an Apple store on the day a new product's released must know, there's a sizable segment of the population that more or less worships the company's products. It's interesting - and possibly rather important - that Apple has signaled its approval of Objective-C, C, and C++, then.
Apple sent the sign in the course of updating its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. The company's now demanding, "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs."
This has put some developers in a huff - they'd like to use tools such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler, and maintain that it isn't any of Apple's concern how they whip an app into working order so long as the result is good.
The upshot of Apple's move is that more developers are liable to wind up using Objective-C, C, and C++, though, perhaps increasing the programming languages' market shares.
Also, the headlines this change has generated shouldn't do the programming languages' reputations any harm, considering that Apple is the only entity that might come out of this looking like a bad guy.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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