Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:53:02 -0800
On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Michael P. Rogers wrote:
Would it be safe to say that more programmers are using
Cocoa/Objective-C now than when it was OpenSTEP? And that it is
installed/available on more computers than when it shipped with NeXT
boxes? I'm writing a paper trying to encourage my colleagues to teach
Cocoa, and so I'm *hoping* that the answers are yes, but educated
estimates either way would be appreciated.
My gut feeling says...
The developer community looking at and interesting in learning Cocoa is
close to one order of magnitude greater then in the NeXT days. The
number of developers actually working in Cocoa is maybe twice to three
times what happened in the NeXT days. I would expect this to accelerate
as the current porting cycle for existing Mac OS apps complete (most
ports are done using Carbon).
Also a big change from the OpenSTEP days is the extension of the Cocoa
frameworks to not only Objective-C but to Java. In other words you have
two languages that can work with Cocoa.
Well Cocoa is part of every copy of Mac OS X and easily over a million
copies have been shipped or pre-installed and ALL future computers sold
from Apple will ship with and boot Mac OS X. I would expect a few
million systems (if not more) with Cocoa frameworks with in a year. I
would think that exceeds NeXT box shipments.
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