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Careful though, Apple has changed its mind plenty of times. A huge portion of the stuff developed near the tail end of Carbon for example was presented as the
by makecheck 9y ago
Careful though, Apple has changed its mind plenty of times. A huge portion of the stuff developed near the tail end of Carbon for example was presented as the future, until it wasn’t. Heck, Forstall got on stage claiming Carbon was becoming 64-bit “top to bottom” (never even shipped). Companies can have the best of intentions but it still doesn’t take much for the next manager to come in and torpedo all the promises.
- tambourine_man 9y agoIt was nearly ready, then canned on the last minute. Hard times. Oh yes, and Java bridge.
- agildehaus 9y agoNot sure how Apple deprecating a transitional tech is a valid comparison to Swift. You might as well say APFS is a passing fad that some manager might cancel and we'll all be back on HFS+ soon.
- zbowling 9y agoI agree mostly with this sentiment but this did actually happen with discoveryd in MacOS. https://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/30/apple-releases-os-x-10-10-4/ https://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/30/apple-releases-os-x-10-...
- makecheck 9y agoIt was not presented as a “transitional tech” at the time, it was presented as an equally valid/supported way to build even new apps. Also, for a very long time there were things you could only do in Carbon, and arguably that was still true at the time it was deprecated. Apple just makes bold moves that aren’t always clean breaks.
- agildehaus 9y agoIt was always a way to get Classic apps running on OS X and Cocoa was the preferred. No idea where you get that it was on equal footing to Cocoa.