Re: Xcode - AN APPLE OPPORTUNITY! (Jean-Denis MUYS)
Re: Xcode - AN APPLE OPPORTUNITY! (Jean-Denis MUYS)
- Subject: Re: Xcode - AN APPLE OPPORTUNITY! (Jean-Denis MUYS)
- From: Roni Music <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:55:05 +0100
I used to be a MacApp expert, but seriously, the link with C++ is thin at
best. What do you suggest anyway?
Do you suggest to provide a pure C++ set of headers for Cocoa, whereby C++
would become a first-class Cocoa programming language?
it's already available
http://www.wxwidgets.org/
This will not happen. Contrary to MacApp, Cocoa relies on an object model
that is very different from C++'s object model. Moreover, the only benefit
of such a feature would be to relieve the programmer from learning
Objective-C. I have very little sympathy for such a benefit. Learning a
new language for a decent engineer is a matter of a few days. The downside
would be more cruft, more baggage to maintain, more bugs. Apple's
development tools have far more pressing issues to resolve than offering a
path for developers who don't want to learn Objective-C. I'd rather see
Apple invest in making what we have more robust than adding more
complexity for limited benefits. After all, the Xcode 4 text editor
*still* doesn't handle pasting of a text selection correctly, despite
filed bugs. When something as basic as pasting a text selection is broken
in an IDE, feature creep is the last thing you want.
Jean-Denis
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