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I am torn. I want to start making applications for OS X. There is a specifically under-served market that I would like to tap but I don’t know if I should develop it only for the mac with Cocoa and Objective C or if I should develop it with Java and JavaFX.
I guess my question is, is Java robust enough to handle the same things as Objective C on Mac and C# (.net) on Windows?
If you want to develop (exclusively) for OSX (and/or IPhone, Ipad) your best bet for native looking (and behaving) applications which tap into the power of the OS would still be learning Objective-C (and the Cocoa framework).
Learning Objective-C syntax isn’t hard if you happen to have some plain C experience. Exploring the framework and functionality provided (Cocoa) is the more time-consuming part (the same can be said of other languages).