Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : Ondra Cada
DATE : Fri Jan 25 22:14:32 2002

Erik,

>>>>>> Erik M. Buck (EMB) wrote at Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:29:55 -0600:
EMB> My bottom line advice is to not ask Carbon vs. Cocoa. Ask Apple at all
EMB> vs. other platforms.

Agreed. Which is where GNUStep comes into the picture. The Foundation part 
is quite portable for some years; I haven't tried AppKit, but somebody 
written not so long ago it approaches maturity quite well.

If it is so indeed -- and to make sure, I repeat I HAVEN'T checked myself! 
--, anything you write in Cocoa/BSD API without polluting the code by Carbon 
nonsenses is the nearest thing to full portability possible, if you want 
full-featured complete API (perhaps C++/X.windows and Java/SWING are 
_slightly_ better from the portability point of view, but lose so much in the 
full-featured part that it more than makes for the difference).
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