Re: Converting nibs (Re: [ANN] Nano 1.4)

Sorry, I was referring to Carbon in general and C++ as it relates to that, and for the Mac only, obviously.

On the other hand, my experience has been that between C# and VB, combined with .NET on Windows, that platform, at least, is moving away from MFC C++ applications.  And those that are coming into the platform and writing C++ are too reliant on what I call "push button programming" that involves little more than cobbling together pre-defined libraries and modifying them to make things work.  I've always been a big proponent of "write it yourself so that you can understand and improve on it down the road," but that opinion seems to be on the decline, in favour of pre-canned stuff that can be glued together with a "modern" architecture.

Throw in the growing use of languages that are on the periphery of things, like Python, Ruby and web based systems, and I'm not sure that one would call this the Golden Age of C/C++.

Realize that I'm not relating whether I think that's good or not, I'm just observing what I've seen.

For myself, I decided to follow the platform, and, while it hasn't been the smoothest of paths, I'm happy with the (small) amount of time I invested in learning Objective C / Cocoa for my new projects.  If I had a ton of code that I would have to drag along with me, or if the projects that I was working on weren't Mac only, I'm not sure that it would have been as easy of a decision, so YMMV.

dale

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