Re: Thoughts on Cocoa
Re: Thoughts on Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Cocoa
- From: Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 07:00:18 -0600
> On Oct 4, 2019, at 4:43 AM, Dragan Milić via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Apple also strongly and clearly advised all new development should be done in
> Yellow Box/Cocoa. Sure it took Apple too quite some time to transition
> everything away from Carbon, but it was clear from the beginning that Carbon
> was there just as long as it was really needed, and not a minute longer. With
> every early major releases (until 2007) of macOS, Apple put strong emphasis
> in release notes which OS-bundled applications have gone from Carbon to Cocoa.
I don’t think it was this clear. I remember reading an Apple employment
advertisement roughly around 2005 that went something like this. "Join the
engineering team and help us make the next Finder rewrite the absolute best
ever with Carbon and C++.” It was reported that Apple had the 64 bit Carbon
port done when the decision was made not to release the product but rather
focus the company's resources and efforts on Cocoa instead. It appears there
was a lot of internal turmoil within the company and the resistance to Cocoa
was strong but eventually Cocoa won out the day because it is a superior
technology.
--Richard Charles
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