Comments on: Palm Mojo SDK Released http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/18/palm-mojo-sdk-released/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:27:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nofbhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/18/palm-mojo-sdk-released/comment-page-1/#comment-865893 nofb Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:03:36 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14498#comment-865893 The iPhone and iPod Touch use Objective-C (and not "Project C", whatever that is), which is an antique barbarian language (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/introObjectiveC.html), with a yet more antique library API (Cocoa). Anyway, enough talking of Apple and their disgusting commercial practices. The device seems to be great, I hope Palm comes back to reason and offer a decent programming language as a serious alternative to this Javascript nonsense. .NET / Mono would be the obvious choice for another platform, but in this case there are two main issues: real-time applications (the lack of control doesn't offer enough guarantees for time-critical embedded applications) and overuse of memory resources (which would lead to more power consumption). C++ and Qt would have been the best candidates, even if the latter is owned by a competitor. The iPhone and iPod Touch use Objective-C (and not “Project C”, whatever that is), which is an antique barbarian language (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjectiveC/Introduction/introObjectiveC.html), with a yet more antique library API (Cocoa). Anyway, enough talking of Apple and their disgusting commercial practices.

The device seems to be great, I hope Palm comes back to reason and offer a decent programming language as a serious alternative to this Javascript nonsense.

.NET / Mono would be the obvious choice for another platform, but in this case there are two main issues: real-time applications (the lack of control doesn’t offer enough guarantees for time-critical embedded applications) and overuse of memory resources (which would lead to more power consumption).

C++ and Qt would have been the best candidates, even if the latter is owned by a competitor.

]]> By: tashhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/18/palm-mojo-sdk-released/comment-page-1/#comment-855499 tash Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:55:56 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14498#comment-855499 As you said, the SDK's the only thing holding it back right now. Well, that and the fact that it's not easy to get an app in the app catalog just yet. The homebrew scene for the pre has shown a lot of potential so far though, and if you really want to you can kill the lunasys/webos gui and start up a directfb screen to run some native linux apps :) As you said, the SDK’s the only thing holding it back right now. Well, that and the fact that it’s not easy to get an app in the app catalog just yet.
The homebrew scene for the pre has shown a lot of potential so far though, and if you really want to you can kill the lunasys/webos gui and start up a directfb screen to run some native linux apps :)

]]> By: Dingbowhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/18/palm-mojo-sdk-released/comment-page-1/#comment-855031 Dingbow Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:43:12 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14498#comment-855031 Limited WebOS SDK hinders serious app, game development... http://www.intomobile.com/2009/07/17/iphone-dev-limited-webos-sdk-hinders-serious-app-game-development.html Limited WebOS SDK hinders serious app, game development…

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/07/17/iphone-dev-limited-webos-sdk-hinders-serious-app-game-development.html

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