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Re: Carbon is C++?
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Re: Carbon is C++?


  • Subject: Re: Carbon is C++?
  • From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:02:37 -0600

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Chunk 1978 <email@hidden> wrote:
> i've been reading about how apple dropped their plans for Carbon 64 a
> while back, so if carbon is C++ then i'm surprised that apple is still
> supporting it at all?

You're confusing a library/framework with the language that library is
written in. Cocoa, Carbon, AppKit, Foundation, CoreServices,
CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, IOKit, etc... these are
libraries/frameworks.

Objective-C, Objective-C++, C, C++... these are languages.

Some of the libraries I listed are pure C or C++, some Objective-C,
and most are a mixture of all the languages.

Apple has deprecated libraries/frameworks. They haven't stopped
supporting any languages though. It's 100% safe to keep writing apps
that use C++ if you are also using Cocoa. A large part of OS X itself
is C++ (see: IOKit and Directory Services).
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