Re: Why Cocoa (say vs Carbon)
Re: Why Cocoa (say vs Carbon)
- Subject: Re: Why Cocoa (say vs Carbon)
- From: Dennis Munsie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:57:24 -0500
Yes, that is very cool... but, IMO, it's very misleading. While it is
true that I am much more productive with Cocoa than I ever was with the
old MacOS/Carbon APIs, there is still work to be done with Cocoa code.
Watching the demo of the word processor being built in less than 15
minutes makes a great marketing story, but it builds up the
expectations a bit much :) Unless, of course, you're writing a word
processor ;)
Cocoa's main advantage is that it allows you to work on the
functionality of your code, vs trying to make the OS do what it's
supposed to do. I still have nightmares about all of the setup code
that classic MacOS programs required... initializing the various
managers, setting up an event loop -- I'm sure all the old Mac
programmers remember having to write code to allow windows to be
dragged... what a freaking nightmare.
And, it's not much better on the Windows, Java, or X Windows side,
IMO... none of them beat the for-free, out of the box, standard
development environment of Cocoa. Boy, it would be nice to see Apple
port Cocoa back out to Windows, Solaris, and others (Linux port? :)
again... maybe in a few years once everything settles with OS X.
dennis
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Robert Steely wrote:
Especially drool-worthy is the ability to build a multi-document text
editor, that features rich text, imbedded graphics, rulers, text
justification, and a myriad of other features that requires
practically no code of my own.
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