YellowBox and Java. (Must read.)
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Steven W. Schuldt (sschuldt@mindspring.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:20:11 -0800
Mark F. Murphy Wrote:
>>I was getting slammed on this list for freaking out when Carbon was
announced and YB looked like it was getting depreciated. I pointed to
Apple's past broken promises.<<
>Yep, yep. Mmm hmm. Me too. So I decided to get a job with them. Go
figure.
Now I don't speak for Apple, or SJ or anything or anyone at all except
myself here but this is the way I look at it:
Apple is shipping OPENSTEP 5.0 (aka MacOSX Server) in Feb. It has been
turned from the mutant NextStep/OpenStep hybrid neglected rusty shed of an
OS that was OPENSTEP 4.2 into a smoke-sucking, fire-fucking godhead OS that
runs atop BSD 4.4 on translucent 400Mhz RISC boxes. The price has gone up
by $200, but in return they threw in the dev environment ($4995), WebObjects
($1499), the worlds most kick-ass MacOS virtual machine and about a million
other improvements and niceties. Additionally, the UI has been made over to
look like MacOS. Java? It is there, big time, but you only have to pretend
to care about that.
To me, as an OpenStep and WOF developer, this looks like virgin, pristine,
undeveloped land stretching on for miles and miles under a blueberry sky.
Months ago I implored "Put it in a box. Put your name on the box. Ship the
box. We'll do the rest.". Here finally is The Box - and it is gooooood.
The marketing goons and their boot-licking strategies can get stuffed, I
know exactly what this thing is and what it can do.
Why am I unable to get worked up about the "unresolved issues", about this
dreaded "future" we're all so worried about? Because I am happy _right
now_. This is more or less the computer and OS I imagined when the merger
happened. As far as my computing life is concerned, the rest is gravy.
What could I do if the runtime issues et al were worked out, the world
dumped Java for ObjC, my Yellow app sold a trillion copies and I were rich
beyond imagining? Buy more copies of it?
So take this hint. MacOSX Server on an ice-white and blue G3 make the best
computer you've ever touched. Here at last is the thing you prayed for
every miserable hour spent holding NT's hand as it convulsed, vomiting and
choking on its own excrement in front of you. Here again is the operating
system that cannot be killed. Microsoft and Sun don't know it yet but they
are face to face with the bloody-minded revenge of NEXTSTEP.
NEXTSTEP reborn and hardened into diamond.<
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