Re: Greetings and a question...
Re: Greetings and a question...
- Subject: Re: Greetings and a question...
- From: David Rehring <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:00:25 -0700
On 5/31/02 1:02 PM, Vince Tourangeau at email@hidden wrote:
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Hello all. I'm pretty new to Objective C and Cocoa, but I'm in love with
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it. I never knew how bad C++ was until I got a taste of Cocoa.
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However, I'm in the same boat as a lot of people here no doubt are: Love
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Cocoa, have to develop things cross-platform. I'm sure this is a pretty
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frequently asked question, but I couldn't find one devoted to this list,
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so here goes: Whatever happened to Yellow Box for Windows and Linux?
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Currently Cocoa isn't very compelling for anyone doing large-scale
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commercial application design, since it won't do anything other than Mac
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OS X. While I'm aware of GnuStep, it just isn't the same. Is Apple doing
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something about this situation, or will Obj-C/Cocoa always be only good
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if you're developing in-house tools or Mac-only software? Please say it
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ain't so.
Sorry. It's so.
Of course, it's not up to me as to whether it will ever be re-released [as
the Cocoa pre-cursor OpenStep did work on a variety of platforms], but it
seems unlikely to me.
I think Apple thinks [double-think?, twice as much, but half as filling]
that Cocoa is a 'competitive-advantage'.
Later,
--
David Rehring Psychos do not explode when light hits
Senior Software Engineer them, no matter how crazy they are...
Atimi Software, Inc.
www.atimi.com And totally insane guy!
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