Re: Cocoa from C++ (dont want to mix it)
Re: Cocoa from C++ (dont want to mix it)
- Subject: Re: Cocoa from C++ (dont want to mix it)
- From: "R. Scott Thompson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:42:04 -0500
On Apr 13, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Lemings, Eric B wrote:
This is my personal view on the whole Cocoa vs. C++ debacle. I believe
that Apple actually WANTS to remain in a niche market with its meager
share rather than joining the mainstream. Now don't get me wrong. Mac
OS X is simply THE best operating system on the market today IMHO.
After all, it has a rock solid Unix core. Apple pioneered the user
interface and STILL has the most intuitive UI. They have a killer
development IDE with Xcode and they have a very well designed API in
Cocoa. The fact that it is written in Objective-C is the only thing
holding them back. If it were written in C++, there would be a huge
migration of developers to the Mac platform. Why? The fact is that
C++
is simply a mainstream language and Objective-C is not. No one (except
Mac developers of course) are interested in it because nobody else uses
it.
If having a C++ interface capable of producing professional
applications is the only thing "holding them back" (a statement with a
world of assumptions in-of-itself), then we have nothing to worry
about. Developers can create C++ applications on the Mac through the
Carbon API.
Scott
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