Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- Subject: Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- From: Christopher Henrich <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:35:34 -0400
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 10:30 PM, publiclook wrote:
Al of the following are my opinions and worries as a long established
developer:
There is an article about using Qt on Mac OS X in preference to using
Cocoa.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3929.
I certainly understand the desirability of a good cross-platform
framework. Mac OS X is now the fifth platform on which I have used
Foundation and Appkit. What I don't understand is comments like the
following:
Wow. I didn't know that foundation and AppKit crossed that many
platforms. Neat. Now...
can we have them on MS windows?
"I tried to un-brainwash myself from years of Windows programming in
order to accept Objective-C and Cocoa. But as soon as I heard that
Trolltech was going to release an updated Qt library for MacOSX, I
abandoned Cocoa altogether. "
<Clunking sound of my eyebrows hitting the ceiling/>
Well, it just goes to show... different people do think differently.
"My own experience is that it's very hard to unlearn C/C++ and adapt
to the mentality and style of Objective-C. I've read comments from
other developers in OSX forums who feel the same way."
Really? I found it perilously easy to get into Objective C. Will I be
able to face the challenge, the sense of mystery, the sheer
undecidableness of C++ again? Only time will tell.
The author was even willing to forego any sort of IDE in order to
stick with Qt. In other words, doing without an IDE was less of an
impediment than using Cocoa.
Well, I belong to the Club Of Old Farts Who Can Actually Remember
Punched Cards. But I do NOT belong to the elite inner circle who feel
nostalgic about punched cards. Doing without an IDE is halfway back to
punched cards. Let's not go there; but if "the author" wants to, well,
he is at his own mercy...
Chris Henrich
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