Visual Basic makes you Dim
It’s been a kinda rough week realizing that Cocoa’s power does not lie in it’s learnability. But I’d learn it any day over Visual Basic.
When learning Objective-C and its joined at the waist framework, I can do a couple quick Google searches and find Apple’s official reference, an informative third party introduction, great guides like this and this, and many other quality references and sample code.
But with Visual Basic, any “answer” I find is glossed over in some script kiddie forum, and seemingly missing (or at least unfindable) in any of Microsoft’s manuals. What is this “Set” keyword? I gather it’s deprecated, but knowing would sure make figuring out old code easier…I tried and tried and tried to find a one-stop reference that would teach me the overall language so I could know what I had to work with. [Emphasis on "had to".] Mostly I just came up with basic “how to make an Excel macro” type stuff. I eventually found a wikibook, but even that left me wanting.
Eventually I did find What Set means in Visual Basic, tucked in an article. But even if all the various Cocoa concepts makes me feel like I’m just playing whack-a-mole, at least I know a) what concepts there are, and b) where to get reliable information on each when I need it.