Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- Subject: Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- From: Donald Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:44:08 -0600
We can argue history all day long. The thing is, the company willing to buy
NeXT wasn't a company making Intel/AMD machines, it was Apple. That has
pluses from the standpoint of Cocoa acceptance (there is a computer
manufacturer putting both the Step environment and development software on
every machine they make, so that they run out of the box) and minuses (Apple
uses an OS as a way to move boxes). It's legitimate to raise questions
about how long Apple will stick with Cocoa, given that so many APIs aren't
native and given the history (though I think this is quantitatively
different from the past technologies that have been abandoned). But OS X
has to have the carbon development system to be feasible to many developers
that make the software that Apple users depend on, and Apple deals with
finite resources to make it all work.
Me, I think this is a great environment. I have my wish list, but I'm
confident enough in Cocoa that I'm happily switching all my new products
into it.
Oh, as for that wish list:
All services to be fully available to Objective-C code (NSQuickTimeView is
NOT an example of fully available)
Better docs and more sample code (though those are becoming available faster
and faster)
A wider range of widgets and controls (which can be included in frameworks
we include with our apps, in order to not wait for 10.87)
Plugin APIs being documented (I have ideas for iPhoto).
Donald
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