Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : Ondra Cada
DATE : Sat Jan 26 00:49:37 2002

Finlay,

>>>>>> Finlay Dobbie (FD) wrote at Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:04:37 +0000:
FD> >Troll or not, in the context it is, I guess, quite right: whilst almost
FD> >complete Cocoa (but some news like sheets or drawers) is totally
FD> >portable to
FD> >anywhere GNUStep is available, *NO* Carbon-specific service is available
FD> >outside of Mac.
FD>
FD> Neither is AppleScript, not to mention Quartz, NetInfo,
FD> DirectoryService, IOKit, QuickTime... The list goes on. These are all
FD> very nice technologies specific to OS X... Is that a reason not to use
FD> them?

For _portable_ products? Try to guess ;)

FD> Or do you group anything with a non-Obj-C API that is part of OS X
FD> as "Carbon"? :-P

In a sense, yep: the vast majority of that API is "carbon" in the sense that 
it is here just for compatibility with Classic stuff, otherwise it could 
(and should!) be implemented quite by a different way: there would be 
NeXTTime instead of QuickTime, DriverKit instead of the non-OO hell of IOKit, 
... well, as you said, the list goes on. And the actual Carbon, of course, 
would not exist at all.
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