On 18 Jun 2007, at 07:04, Kevin Walzer wrote:

>  Let's set aside the issue of the major commercial Mac software  
>  vendors,
>  such as Microsoft and Adobe, and the fact that their major  
>  applications
>  are all Carbon. Has Apple given any consideration to the fact that
>  nearly every cross-platform GUI toolkit uses Carbon for its windowing
>  system API? Not just Tk, but Qt, wxWidgets, and RealBasic, for  
>  starters.
>  Or perhaps they have given this thought, and want to discourage
>  cross-platform toolkits?

But why do they use Carbon? Why not move to Cocoa in their cases as  
well? I can understand the move from Apple's point of view perfectly.  
In fact, it has been a public secret for years that Carbon will be  
deprecated at some point and that developers should use Cocoa. It's a  
lot of work to maintain to APIs and does not make much sense for Apple.

I can't really see the benefit in holding on tight to Carbon.  
Besides, purely from a user's perspective, Cocoa application in  
general feel more refined.

            /  http://www.fishpool.com/~setok/


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