Re: Cocoa and future
Re: Cocoa and future
- Subject: Re: Cocoa and future
- From: tahome izwah <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:09:07 +0100
2009/2/20 john smith <email@hidden>:
>
> there's some talk about Apple removing support for Carbon in the future, and
> from what I understand it is already somewhat removed from the 64-bit
> version of the OS.
Apple has apparently decided not to offer 64bit support for Carbon.
This decision makes total sense, given the fact that Carbon is largely
using 32bit data types and it would take a lot of effort to make all
of it 64bit compatible. Also, Cocoa is a far better technology for
user interfaces and allows developers to create working UIs in no time
at all. Many of the recent UI classes are only available in Cocoa
which would indicate that they are going to get rid of Carbon soon
(probably with Snow Leopard), but maybe one of the Apple engineers can
comment on the Carbon roadmap.
I started MacOS application development on MacOS 9, using Carbon can
be very tricky and time consuming because you have to deal with a lot
of details that you usually don't want to worry about in your app.
Cocoa is so much easier to work with I wouldn't want to go back to
Carbon.
> I'm wondering what this means with regards to AU, esp. considering Logic
> Audio. Does this mean that only cocoa views are supported in the near
> future? Or can a carbon view work on the 64-bit version of the OS? Also in
> logic?
Logic does support AudioUnits with Carbon views. Since Carbon is not
going to be available in 64bit the question doesn't apply.
> What about the "effect" part of the AU, will this be cocoa also?
The "effect part" is mostly just C++ so I don't think that this will
be a problem.
--th
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