I predict that the biggest legacy of iPhone and iOS on programming is a wider understanding and adoption of Cocoa design principles.
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@janl Just curious: Are those different than those employed in UI frameworks one or two decades ago?
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@stilkov Cocoa is an application and UI framework from one or two decades ago. Just constantly refined.
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@janl @stilkov if we take Next origins, then it's from the '90s at least
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@old_sound @stilkov I venture to say that we won’t find more refined and relevant software anywhere else.
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@janl @stilkov Objective-C might be verbose, but I really love programming in Cocoa
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@old_sound @stilkov Yeah, ObjC deficiencies go away so quickly when I’m immersed in Cocoa.
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@janl @old_sound Interesting, didn’t get that feeling in Hello world experiments. Not being a Cocoa programmer, I’ll take your word for it.

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@stilkov @old_sound — yeah, Hello world can be a bit hostile, it takes some time to get into, but once immersed, it’s like another dimension
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