Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:51:20 -0800
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On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Michael P. Rogers wrote:
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> Would it be safe to say that more programmers are using
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> Cocoa/Objective-C now than when it was OpenSTEP? And that it is
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> installed/available on more computers than when it shipped with NeXT
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> boxes? I'm writing a paper trying to encourage my colleagues to teach
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> Cocoa, and so I'm *hoping* that the answers are yes, but educated
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> estimates either way would be appreciated.
Just watch versiontracker for a month and you'll have enough statistical
data to prove anything you want. The number of new Cocoa apps being written
on a daily basis is simply astounding. I've been watching this sort of
thing since 1990 and the old info-mac days, and I have *never* seen this
degree of glut of new apps for Mac. And it's just getting faster and
faster. Programmers are crawling out of the woodwork faster than ants on a
dry day in Ojai, California when you've left a piece of donut on your
kitchen counter (and I speak from experience on that one).
Another way to gauge the growth in Cocoa's popularity is to watch this
list. Even in the short time I've been reading it the number of messages
where the questioner is clearly just coming onstream has ballooned
dramatically.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:53:02 -0800, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> said:
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Well Cocoa is part of every copy of Mac OS X
And the developer tools and docs are FREE. Again, this is a total first in
the history of Mac, a complete reversal of Apple's previous policies of not
supplying any tools themselves and charging heftily for developer info. m.
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