Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : Matt Judy
DATE : Sat Jan 26 01:37:19 2002

Actually, I have had to use IOKit quite a bit recently, and it _is_
intelligently laid out, and not quite a 'non-OO hell'.

But it is NOWHERE close to the ease of DriverKit.  C++, no matter how
well laid out, is always a pain, and never truly object oriented.  With
DriverKit, I was able to get a driver together for "X" piece of hardware
in around an hour.  IOKit will never match this.

--Matt

John C. Randolph wrote:
> On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 03:49 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
>
>> , DriverKit instead of the non-OO hell of IOKit,
>
>
> I get the impression that you haven't actually looked at IOKit.  It
> certainly is OO code, and the IOKit team was very careful to define
> "Kernal C++", just like the DriverKit team had once defined "Kernal
> Obj-C".  They didn't make the switch to C++ without careful
> consideration and design.  FYI, the IOKit team is led by an ex-NeXT
> engineer.
>
> -jcr
>
>
> John C. Randolph    <<email_removed>>  (408) 974-8819
> Sr. Software Engineer, Cocoa Evangelism
> Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
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