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At one point AppKit and FoundationKit supported 4 architectures (68k, x86, HP, and Sparc), most Cocoa based applications were just a recompile away. The main i
by spiralpolitik 11y ago
At one point AppKit and FoundationKit supported 4 architectures (68k, x86, HP, and Sparc), most Cocoa based applications were just a recompile away.
The main issue with the PowerPC to x86 was Carbon which was never designed to be a cross-platform toolkit in the same away that Cocoa was. Given that Carbon 64 never got off the starting blocks and Carbon 32 was deprecated way back in 10.8 switching architectures will be less painful this time around.