On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Jason Stephenson <email@hidden> wrote:
> It seems that many on this list feel that Apple should provide everything
> that the programmer needs to work on Mac OS X and that there should not be
> 3rd party frameworks for much of anything.
>
> This attitude really, truly puzzles me because on every other platform where
> I've programmed this attitude never came up in the discussion forums. It was
> always just assumed that you would need to use 3rd party frameworks to get
> any real work done, unless you intended to roll everything yourself.
I think it's because Cocoa provides so much, but falls short in some
strange places. You can easily get used to having Cocoa do all the
work for you. XML parsing? Check. HTTP handling? Check. Media
decoding? Check. Speech synthesis? Check. Regular expressions? Doh!
Of course Mac OS X does come with a regex library, it just doesn't
have an ObjC interface. There's more to what's available than Cocoa,
and one of the great things about ObjC is how easy it is to talk to
these pure C libraries and get them to do work for you as well.
Mike
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