Martin Crane (15/6/07, 11:11) said:
>As far as Carbon 64bit is concerned as a whole, although I understand
>that there may still be some edge case issues to resolve (there are
>plenty of edge cases in existing shipping Carbon!), it would have
>been much more considerate of Apple to announce that Carbon was to be
>deprecated as of 10.6 and provide the promised 64bit support for 10.5
>- after all, it is practically complete, so why throw it away? At
>least this would give us, your devoted developers, a good year's
>worth of development time to transition to Cocoa, while still being
>able to ship 64bit apps until we are ready. It seems like the Right
>Thing(TM) to do to me...
Absolutely.
It's obvious that Carbon and Cocoa need to be rationalized and
integrated more sensibly than is currently the case. There are too many
discrepancies in the behaviour (and appearance) of Carbon vs. Cocoa
programs to make for a good user experience.
The other issue is cross-platform development. Cocoa (OpenStep) was
originally a cross-platform framework which ran on Windows and NeXT.
When it was introduced for the Mac, developers were told that it would
give them the ability to write cross-platform applications. Of course,
this failed to happen, and Apple now appear to be discouraging cross-
platform development - except for themselves...
Jeremy
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