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Re: No session about Carbon in WWDC


On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
Exactly. Many people believed Apple would eventually do what it did, and many of those people claim everyone should have known it and that Apple had made it clear all along, but this is simply not true. Apple definitely encouraged Cocoa development, but it wasn't until June of 2007 that they actually said they were officially reducing the resources invested in Carbon in favor of Cocoa, and that effectively, Carbon had no future. They clearly lied to us prior to that. Apparently there are those who believe they didn't really lie to us because we should have known they were lying to us. I don't accept that logic.

It's just me reading the tea leafs, but my interpretation is not that Apple lied. It is that they made a very unfortunate last-minute decision to not ship the result of many months of work by the engineers working on a 64bit verison of Carbon. And with it, they broke the commitment they made to Carbon when introducing HIView as a modern, future-proof API for UI development under OS X*.

Personally, I regret every single minute I followed Apples recommendations to use new APIs and 'modernized' my Carbon code by replacing ResEdit resources with NIB files and classic controls with HIViews.

My only hope is that in four years from now I won't be saying the same about having ported my code from HIView to NSView.

-Stefan

*
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/Upgrading_HIToolbox/upgrading_hitoolbox_conc/chapter_2_section_7.html


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