Re: Future of Cocoa
Re: Future of Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Future of Cocoa
- From: Jean-Daniel via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:16:21 +0100
> Le 20 nov. 2019 à 01:26, Gerald Henriksen via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> a écrit :
>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:51:14 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> When committing to 64 bit Apple said NO to Carbon but YES to Cocoa and YES
>> to Core Foundation and YES to a lot of other stuff. The OS still has the XNU
>> (Mach) Kernel and FreeBSD (written in C & C++), the Cocoa frameworks (base
>> layer written in Objective-C), Swift and lots of other stuff. From my point
>> of view I do not see Apple sweeping away Objective-C and the Cocoa
>> frameworks any time soon.
>
> Just because Apple may need to keep Objective-C around for the
> frameworks doesn't mean they will continue to allow applications to be
> written in it.
>
> All they need to do is either eliminate the option (stop shipping the
> Objective-C compiler), or do so by requiring all applications to have
> something that is only available via Swift.
If Obj-C is dead, why is Apple still adding new language extensions (and not
minor one) ?
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d4e1ba3fa9dfec2613bdcc7db0b58dea490c56b1
<https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d4e1ba3fa9dfec2613bdcc7db0b58dea490c56b1>
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