Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- Subject: Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt.
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:08:32 -0500
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 09:30 PM, publiclook wrote:
Companies will not put in the effort to do a good Mac version if they
can get away with a no-effort mediocre version.
But Cocoa on (platform X) would have the same disadvantage that QT has
on OS X. Foundation is fairly generic, but Application Kit is closely
tied to the Mac OS X environment. If we magically ported Application
Kit to (platform X), it would be at a disadvantage because it would
lack the level of platform integration that the native toolkit has.
I think in general the idea of a cross-platform toolkit is a bad one. I
think the better solution is to push MVC everywhere. The bulk of an
application's code is in its (literal or notional) controllers and
models. Replacing an Objective C/Cocoa view with a C++/MFC/.Whatever
view should be a better solution than either doing a half-assed port or
using a least-common-denominator toolkit.
(I'm gonna be a bit of a bastard here: I think people who rave about QT
are unaware of how much better Cocoa is. I used to be a ViewKit
programmer, ViewKit and Motif on SGI hardware. ViewKit and QT have a
lot in common. I used to think that ViewKit was the bee's knees. But
now I know better. It's a shame that more people aren't willing to
climb the learning curve to go from thinking in C++ to thinking in
Objective C so they can make an informed decision about Cocoa.)
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