> Cocoa is complete and utter crap... Full stop! I don't see why
Apple dropped the true and tested Apple toolbox over some unproven
garbage named after a caffeine plant.
I agree (although some will argue about "unproven"), but what makes
us happy and productive is not necessarily the same that makes NeXT,
I mean Apple, make money. There are both marketing reasons and
political reasons.
> - don't make improvements to MacOS 9.2.2+ ... What was wrong with
waitnextevent?? I run 10.4.11 and it runs like a three legged dog on
my dual G4 (max ram/running 3xscsi 160 HDs). There is no lag of any
kind in 9.
OS9 is indeed a LOT faster than OSX. I think OS9 was too good. All
it needed was memory protection, and there are rumors that Apple had
that working in-house. But Apple does not make money from a finished
product that doesn't need improvements!
And to be fair, OS9 had been an oddball all the time, and the rest
of the industry was pushing it to conform. Apple was bleeding and
needed to win market shares. Critical players demanded a Unix core.
Apple needed to show BIG changes, not fixes on OS9.
You should probably review the OS 9 history. OS 9 was faster for sure,
but it does not even got a preemptive scheduler. Every minor error in
third party applications crash the whole system. It's was PowerPC
only. It was absolutly not design to be multi-user friendly. It's the
result of many years of failure to write a reliable Operating System.
Sometime you have to accept evidence and learn from the past, and
that's what Apple did, and it did well.
> I, myself would rather use 64bit Carbon any day compared to
Objective-C rubbish.
Me too, but we are not vital to Apple. We don't make Apple earn
millions. If you are Adobe or Microsoft, then you get what you want.
Yes, everybody now that Adobe and Microsoft are pushing Apple to drop
64 bits carbon. They don't need it at all. That's not as if Photoshop
and Office were Carbon Applications.
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