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

FROM : Henry Maddocks
DATE : Thu Apr 14 11:00:11 2005

Or any number of the c++ carbon wrappers presented at Mac hack etc.
Or any number of the c++ xplatform tool kits available, QT, wxWindows 
etc.



On 14/04/2005, at 5:42 PM, R. Scott Thompson wrote:

>
> 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
>
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