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Interestingly, I was just in my storage garage moving stuff and have the full NeXTSTEP 3.3 manual set with discs from 3.3 and 4.x in a plastic box. It weighs a
by protomyth 10y ago
Interestingly, I was just in my storage garage moving stuff and have the full NeXTSTEP 3.3 manual set with discs from 3.3 and 4.x in a plastic box. It weighs a ton.
It is still my favorite platform both from a programming and user point of view. I miss the menu system and still curse the Mac toolbar (particularly on my 34" 21:9 monitor). It was a joy to program and the amazing framework were a revelation compared to Win32 and its follow-ons. It is amazing what something designed for Smalltalk-like message passing and a runtime can get you. Windows 95 and NT were pains in the butt to program in C++ while VB at least was closer to NeXTSTEP in productivity. I generally prototyped my interfaces in Interface Builder and then redid them in VB if needed. Its sad how much was lost on the way to OS X.