Re: Objective C and C++
Re: Objective C and C++
- Subject: Re: Objective C and C++
- From: John Michael Zorko <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:15:20 -0800
Nick,
What we're really missing is a 3rd party book on CoreAudio. The more I read about it, the more I realize how well designed it is, however, there's no standard way to learn all this without a lot of experimentation. Maybe someone will do it under the Pragmatic Programmer series ( http://www.pragprog.com/titles)...
_This_ would be really cool. I recently snarfed a third-party book on Core Animation, and it's quite helpful. A Core Audio book would be great. The most important thing Apple should do is create sample *Cocoa*
applications - not command line ones. This way, they could explain how
audio is supposed to run as a background thread that can be
interrupted by a UI control.
I suspect that they simply didn't want to create special projects for
Cocoa and Carbon, but since Carbon is officially a dead end, why not
make all example Cocoa-only?
Well, I for one am glad that Apple continues to provide examples in C++ (read: non-ObjC). Many (if not most) of us have to make our apps work on Mac OSX and that other platform -- you know, the one with the 90%+ market-share called Windows. Writing all of the code twice (once in ObjC and once in C#) is just _not_ an option most of the time, so i'm quite thankful, as a full-time cross-platform developer, that I can code 90% or more of my app in C++, and only the platform-specific bits in ObjC or C#. ObjC is a cool language, I completely agree (the more I do it, the more I enjoy it) -- but so is C#, and when each camp demands that we drink their Kool-Aid, those of us who have to code for _both_ are really turned off. C++ is not the greatest language ever, but it's a very good object-oriented language to do professional cross-platform work in.
Regards,
John
Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound
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