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MasterNayruon AWS Service Interuptions

For all intents and purposes, we're completely offline at the moment. It's clearly some serious issue because the icon for EC2 in Sydney on AWS' status page is yellow, rather than the usual green tick with the small 'i'.

MasterNayruon Why did Objective-C never catch on? (Ask Slashdot, Aug 2000)

I'm just looking at the slew of cross-platform games (eg. the GTA series) that have recently been put on the iDevices and thinking "They wouldn't have rewritten those from scratch, would they?".

MasterNayruon Why did Objective-C never catch on? (Ask Slashdot, Aug 2000)

Also, can you assume that apps that even are in the Apple domain DO use Objective-C enough that it warrants calling the language "popular"? Or are we seeing apps written in another language with a bit of Objective-C to act as glue between the app and Cocoa/iOS?