Chapter 2. Cocoa Language Options
When most people think of Cocoa, they think of Objective-C. In the NeXT days, Objective-C was the only way of developing for OpenStep. With OS X 10.0, Java was supported as well, and with recent releases other languages have had support added, but Objective-C remains the standard language for Cocoa development.
Objective-C itself has evolved a lot over the years. Under the direction of NeXT, it remained relatively static, but each release of OS X has introduced new versions. Java-like keywords for exception handling and synchronization were added over the years, and 10.5 introduced a complete break in compatibility and a new version of the language: Objective-C 2.0. 64-bit Cocoa and Objective-C 2.0 are both only ...
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