Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:21:42 -0500
At 12:45 AM +0000 3/22/02, Elias. wrote:
On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 11:59 , Dennis De Mars wrote:
Absolutely, and I would also add that this seems to be quite
subjective. In a discussion on the Carbon mailing list I suggested
that Apple's activities in promoting Carbon and Cocoa was fairly
even-handed, and one of the developers responded that as far as he
could see Apple was doing a lot to visibly promote Cocoa and
virtually nothing to promote Carbon.
My take on all of this...
A year ago, it was all Carbon - trying to get commercial application
developers to port things - now it is all Cocoa - trying to get
hobby application developers to make new things...
It's interesting how times change. A year ago I openly worried
whether Apple was "serious" about Objective-C, a language that was
obscure in the commercial world. Apple had already moved WebObjects
to Java. Would they do the same to Cocoa by dead-ending the
Objective-C interface and moving ahead with the Java interface? I
like Java, but I would have been strongly opposed to such a move.
I can now look back on those worries with amusement as enthusiastic
Cocoaists crank out app after app in Objective-C.
--Andy
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