I was recently reminded of a couple of a blog posts I have bookmarked by Allan Odgaard, the man behind the very excellent TextMate app. This one is a good one:

• http://blog.macromates.com/2006/20-will-require-leopard/

This is an even better one!

• http://blog.macromates.com/2007/buy-a-mac-get-textmate/

As my frustration over a number of issues on Windows (particularly with the Objective-C mess), and as a number of other things have collided on different fronts, I’m realizing that the points Allan makes are really good ones.

This also presents me with an opportunity to mention that the ObjectiveMax project, as of about a week ago has become a Mac-only project. It’s a bummer because we then won’t be able to use it in TTBlue or Jamoma (because they both need to support Windows). Objective-C actually made the code fun to write.

Not having Objective-C on Windows also means that Tap.Tools 3 is not going to be all of the hoopla that was predicted in an earlier blog post. It will still be nicely integrated with Max 5, but the object set needs to be cross-platform (except for tap.applescript), and so won’t be getting an Objective-C re-write.

Hopefully this means I’ll have some more time to write music – which will positively improve my personal happiness :-)