Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- Subject: Re: How viable is Cocoa development?
- From: Hsu <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:19:54 -0800
Isn't the elegance of Cocoa the design, not the implementation?
It makes sense from Apple's point of view - if at all possible have a
single implementation with 2 different ways to access (Carbon and Cocoa).
It's easier to write a Cocoa wrapper on top of Carbon than the other way
around.
Karl
On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 08:30 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:49:37 +0100
Finlay Dobbie (FD) wrote at Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:04:37 +0000:
FD> Or do you group anything with a non-Obj-C API that is part of OS X
FD> as "Carbon"? :-P
In a sense, yep: the vast majority of that API is "carbon" in the
sense that
it is here just for compatibility with Classic stuff, otherwise it
could
(and should!) be implemented quite by a different way:
I may be mistaken here, since I haven't done a systematic
examination... but I had occasion to trace into the machine code of
several Cocoa implementations (notably in file handling), and they
appear to call Carbon File Manager routines often. Quite a few parts of
Cocoa seem to be just a thin shell over the equivalent Carbon calls.
You might argue that this is a consequence of HFS+ support, I suppose...
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