Re: Cocoa from C++ (dont want to mix it)

FROM : R. Scott Thompson
DATE : Thu Apr 14 07:42:04 2005

On Apr 13, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Lemings, Eric B wrote:

> This is my personal view on the whole Cocoa vs. C++ debacle.  I believe
> that Apple actually WANTS to remain in a niche market with its meager
> share rather than joining the mainstream.  Now don't get me wrong.  Mac
> OS X is simply THE best operating system on the market today IMHO.
> After all, it has a rock solid Unix core.  Apple pioneered the user
> interface and STILL has the most intuitive UI.  They have a killer
> development IDE with Xcode and they have a very well designed API in
> Cocoa.  The fact that it is written in Objective-C is the only thing
> holding them back.  If it were written in C++, there would be a huge
> migration of developers to the Mac platform.  Why?  The fact is that
> C++
> is simply a mainstream language and Objective-C is not.  No one (except
> Mac developers of course) are interested in it because nobody else uses
> it.


If having a C++ interface capable of producing professional
applications is the only thing "holding them back" (a statement with a
world of assumptions in-of-itself), then we have nothing to worry
about.  Developers can create C++ applications on the Mac through the
Carbon API.

Scott