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Re: NeXTstep -- err, Mac OS X.

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 10:57 AM, James Chandler Jr wrote:
But converting to Objective C is simply "out of the question".

Who says you have to convert your entire application to Objective-C?

If your entire application is human interface code, that's understandable. But if it has proper model-view-controller separation, you can use C/C++ for your custom model objects, Cocoa for your view objects, and Objective-C for the controller objects to bind the two together and for any custom views.

In fact, that might be your best route on Windows as well: C/C++ for your custom model objects, Windows Forms for your view objects, C# for the controller objects to bind the two together and for any custom views.

"Merely" Carbonizing the app is driving me crazy. The Carbonizing step has become a career in itself (GRIN). Perhaps some day I will actually get to write new features, rather than just making the old features work in OSX.

I seem to recall hearing of developers who have done Cocoa rewrites of their applications faster than they were able to bring those applications to Carbon. Whether this is the case for you depends greatly on your application, what it does, how it does it, and how factored it is. And how gnarly the original code is, too.

-- Chris

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