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Re: [Chicken-users] Cocoa Bridge and Chicken gui repl
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Thomas Christian Chust |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Cocoa Bridge and Chicken gui repl |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:37:06 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) |
Glen Foy schrieb:
> [...] The only problem is that Grace/Juce is a Carbon application,
> and Carbon is probably on the way out. Apple is ruthless when it
> comes to orphaning old technologies. [...]
Hello,
I would deem it highly unlikely that the Carbon API will be deprecated
any time soon: Cocoa is basically just an Objective-C wrapper around
Carbon and there is no good reason to rewrite it from scratch without a
Carbon dependency. Then there are also applications for which the
extremely dynamic runtime system of Objective-C may be too slow, so it
is always good to have a low level API available as well -- for example
the last time I checked, MacOS X's Finder application was implemented in
C++ as a Carbon application for performance reasons. And finally a bunch
of popular third party GUI toolkits are based on Carbon, not Cocoa,
because they are not written in Objective-C either -- it would probably
be a strategic mistake for Apple to kick the backend of widely used
toolkits like Qt+ and the upcoming native Gtk+ port out of MacOS X,
annoying all the developers depending on them...
cu,
Thomas