Re: Cross platform development: Was: Deprecated methods in NSDocument
Re: Cross platform development: Was: Deprecated methods in NSDocument
- Subject: Re: Cross platform development: Was: Deprecated methods in NSDocument
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:52:43 +0100
Am 24.11.2005 um 16:17 schrieb email@hidden:
We could write it in ObjC, but apologies;
GNUStep still doesn't look like a real possibility to me, and I
want to
depend on something with solid backing,
What else besides a fully working, cross platform Foundation
framework would you expect? Never ever again loose support for the
language, since it's open source and you're free to store a copy of
the source on your own hard disk.
I detect a worrying trend here (Horrible memories of the time and
effort I
put into OpenDoc suddenly came back to me!)
The trend is, OSs became much too complex. Good ol' System 6 had one
Apple supported language (Pascal) and one Apple supported framework
(Toolbox). Today, we carry around at least five of each of them
without having a significantly improved developer or user experience.
Carbon apps work, Cocoa/Java apps work, Cocoa/Obj-C apps work. You
can code almost everything with each of them and an average user
won't notice the difference. Same for the other technologies.
So I might return the question: what would you do to improve this
situation? Slowly fading out most of those technologies at the risk
of loosing developers (Carbon was born solely to hold developers)?
Creating something entirely new, so everybody can easily enjoy
jumping into it (Cocoa was meant to be this technology, with
obviously limited success)? Hold all the technologies at the cost of
tripled (at least) software maintenance costs (Tiger added support
for wxWindows, obviously to attract another few developers)?
What do you think?
Markus
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/
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