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Re: Is Carbon Viable?

Rick Mann wrote:

Which is not to say that I expect any one else to come up with alternative tools for Mac OS X development, even if it were C++, but this doesn't help the situation. There was a time, arguably with a smaller Mac software market, when non-Apple development tools excelled (how I miss those tools!).

That is true, and there were some really good ones. But Apple isn't the only player
today either. The problem is that the competitors are open source, since you can't
make money from development tools any more. That is a problem for development
speed, but can produce good things in a longer perspective - things that don't go
away when the manufacturer discontinues the product.

If Apple pulls the plug on Carbon, I will not switch to Cocoa. I have had enough
of such APIs, and I won't invest time in another nonportable platform, especially
in an odd language. Either I'll switch to Linux altogether or I will find a nice
cross-platform solution. I thought my future as Mac developer was saved
when Apples sales went up, but now Linux seems more and more attractive.


/Ingemar

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