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Re: Is Carbon Viable?

I think this discussion is getting a bit off-topic in some respects. As Eric has already mentioned, Obj-C/Cocoa is a fact of life for Mac OS X development, so debating the merits of one programming language and/or framework doesn't really change anything.

For those of us who develop using C/C++ and Carbon APIs, there are valid concerns about the future of Carbon. In terms of its viability to create usable software, the answer at this time is yes, since there is no shortage of Carbon-based software out there. This does not mean that Apple's application vision won't go through a future paradigm shift that rules out the usage of a procedural API.

For the present, for app writers your 32-bit version should continue to work just fine for the forseeable future. The issues in this case seem to be that either there are cases where you're running into issues due to the smaller address space for 32-bit apps; and/or from a marketing point of view, the perception by end users that 64-bit is always better so you need to show you have a 64-bit solution.

One area that concerns me, as a plug-in developer, is what happens when a 64-bit version of the host application comes out. With the Intel transition, we converted all of our plug-ins to Universal Binaries and then everything worked just fine. With the 64-bit case, I'm not sure what will happen, although my guess is that we're out of luck. Rewriting everything in Cocoa will be a huge development task for us, but maybe we can be done by 2009. :-)

For now, I'm very curious about what will be said in this afternoon's HIToolbox session here at WWDC...

steve

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