Re: Need for Swift
Re: Need for Swift
- Subject: Re: Need for Swift
- From: Alex Zavatone via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:07:09 -0500
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> On Oct 15, 2019, at 10:37 AM, John Joyce via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Oct 15, 2019, at 22:58, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Nobody
>> is every going to write a full CAD, project management or business
>> accounting app in either Swift or Obj-C.
>>
>> TurtleSoft has a big investment in C++ source code that's full of
>> construction business logic. Unfortunately, with the death of Carbon its
>> future value is in doubt.
> If your code is worth complaining about this much, then move to Objective-C++
> and wire up a damn UI. That or Electron, wxWidgets or Qt or one of the
> plethora of mostly abysmal cross platform GUI toolkits.
> It’s getting old and it’s just a drag for everybody.
> Carbon is dead and nobody was surprised by this but your company somehow.
> Everybody else got the memo a decade ago. Spam this list less and go do some
> coding.
I think what the benefit could be is to see the problems he has and sharing
options to address them - just as you did.
Is it possible to approach this on a module by module approach?
If he were to take your approach, how would you recommend he start?
Cheers. Back to hell for me.
Alex Zavatone
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