Re: [Chicken-users] Cocoa Bridge and Chicken gui repl

[Jacques Vidrine]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Thomas Christian Chust wrote:
> 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:

It is already deprecated.  This was made especially clear at this  
year's WWDC where it was announced that 64-bit Carbon applications  
will not be supported.

> Cocoa is basically just an Objective-C  wrapper around
> Carbon

Actually, most Cocoa UI is independent of Carbon.

> 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

Trolltech has already announced that "Over time, we will gradually  
transition Qt to also use Cocoa for 64-bit applications".

A lot of good information about the future of Carbon can be found on  
this wiki:

http://www.carbondev.com/site/?page=64-bit+Carbon

Cheers,
--
Jacques