Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Why is WebKit written in C++ and not in ObjectiveC

Programmer Question

Apple is the backing force of ObjectiveC.



However WebKit is written in C++.



Apart from portability (not all systems have ObjectiveC compilers/runtimes) is there any other valid reason for this? Performance, features?



Lately Apple does not seem to care of other languages than ObjectiveC.



Find the answer here

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