tags: cocoa
2007
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- 2007 Aug 8
- cocoa vs carbon (an on-going debate)
Even six and a half years after the debut of Mac OS X, this programming API debate continues to draw
· Read more…flamespassionate cries of outrage from both camps: the classic Mac OS developers versus the NeXTish developers. [Carbon viewpoint][Cocoa rebuttal] And while Apple does officially intend for Carbon and Cocoa to be both native, first-class APIs, I always got the feeling that the ultimate target was Cocoa. This is unsurprising, considering that Cocoa, derived from NEXTSTEP, is therefore sort of Steve Jobs’ baby.