Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- Subject: Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:02:14 -0500
on 02-01-25 11:50 PM, Erik M. Buck at email@hidden wrote:
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You get the idea. Apple is already dropping parts of Cocoa. Is it such a
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stretch to see them drop it all (at least publicly ?)
I have had the impression that the "dropping parts of Cocoa" phenomenon is
in part a temporary artifact of the ongoing process of Carbonizing Cocoa. It
makes sense to me that Cocoa should be Carbonized wherever possible, because
it reduces duplication of effort for Apple and therefore expense over the
long haul. It also makes sense to me that at least some of the "dropped"
parts of Cocoa will return as time allows the Carbonization process (and
Carbon itself) to catch up. One step backward to prepare the groundwork for
two steps forward.
From this point of view, the Cocoa of the future can be thought of as Carbon
on steroids. Cocoa as the preferred application framework for development of
Carbon applications. One OS technology combining both, not two separate
technologies. Who cares what's under Cocoa's hood as long as it works and
remains the wonderful OO development environment that it is?
This surely makes business sense for Apple, and it's consistent with the
evidence to date (which is, of course, incomplete, since there hasn't yet
been time to get to the verdict).
I have no inside information. Nor does Erik, as far as I know. So I feel
justified in speculating optimistically, as he is speculating
pessimistically.
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