Re: Apple, Are You Listening?
Re: Apple, Are You Listening?
- Subject: Re: Apple, Are You Listening?
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:43:19 -0500
On Jun 1, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Karl Goiser wrote:
Hello,
I am generally a lurker, sometimes popping up to ask an inane
question, often too late to contribute to the list...
What is the cocoa-dev mailing list? When you think about it, it is
actually a problem solving list: somebody asks, "how do you do this",
or "I can't get this to work" and generous people respond with
suggestions.
It occurred to me the other day that the cocoa-dev mailing list could
be used by Apple as a source for determining areas that could be
improved. So.. if they looked at the types of problems that people on
the list have and did a simple frequency count, they'd find the most
common problems and problem areas. These areas could then be targeted
with better documentation, tech notes or addressing the code base
itself.
For example, my impression (off the top of my head and probably wrong,
but as an example) is that the most common problem areas are:
- memory
The retain/release mechanism is fairly basic to the way ObjC works.
It's not going away without changing the language at a fundamental
level. And the only way to really make it easier would be to add
garbage collection, which has other problems and would not be taken
well by a lot of Cocoa developers.
- table view
They are working to make this easier, using:
- bindings
, which a lot of people are asking about lately because it is new.
Charles
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