Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
- Subject: Re: What framework & language is good for an old C++ mule.
- From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:01:58 -0600
On Mar 13, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote:
Reading that Cocoa/ObjC is getting more mature with less support
for Java API...
...I'm wondering if in the future, the Quartz API/framework will
become more Cocoa/Obj and hence, less need for the Core Foundation.
That is, will the Core Foundation/C further morph into Cocoa/ObjC
APIs.?
I think you are making a mistake when you tie Cocoa and Objective-C
APIs into one group. A technology can have an Objective-C API and not
be a part of Cocoa. Apple has already released several key
technologies (WebKit, Core Data, Core Image, etc...) that have
Objective-C APIs but which are not part of Cocoa per se. For
example, I've used Core Image inside of a Carbon application without
any trouble.
If you question is "Is Apple likely to introduce more technologies
with Objective-C APIs?", I'd say that's it's pretty good bet that
they will.
Core Foundation, however, is very useful for all the application
environments on the system. The C APIs play a role, not only in
Java, but also in BSD, and Carbon. C APIs are also ubiquitous in
other environments like Python, Perl, Fortran, Smalltalk (Squeak!)
and others so I don't anticipate that they are going to disappear any
time soon.
Scott
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