Re: Why is Cocoa Better?
Re: Why is Cocoa Better?
- Subject: Re: Why is Cocoa Better?
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:09:08 +0100
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 06:45 pm, Yi Lin wrote:
I chose Cocoa because I've heard lots of great things about it, but I
still don't understand why it is superior to other development
frameworks like PowerPlant, MacApp, or even MFC and Java's own
framework.
MacApp is dead. Java/Swing is fine if you want to go the Java route,
but Java apps aren't really OS X applications. MFC isn't available for
the Mac, so that's right out of the window.
If you want to develop modern Mac applications, that leaves Cocoa and
PowerPlant. Both are very able, and each has their own
advantages/disadvantages. Cocoa is Obj-C, PP is C++. Cocoa is free, PP
costs $$ (part of CW). With PP, you get the source code, with Cocoa,
you don't. Other than that, it's largely a matter of personal taste,
although most people seem to find themselves more productive with
Cocoa. I read that PP underwent some major modernisation for CW Dev
Studio 9, so I guess PPx might close the gap somewhat.
-- Finlay
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