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macOS makes the 64-bit transition a bit harder than that because a lot of the older user space APIs were purposely not ported to 64-bit. If your app was written
by gok 9y ago
macOS makes the 64-bit transition a bit harder than that because a lot of the older user space APIs were purposely not ported to 64-bit. If your app was written against the Carbon APIs, you have to do a fair amount of work to change all the GUI code.
- duskwuff 9y agoYep. But developers have no excuse for being late to that show -- Carbon was always explicitly a transitional technology, for a transition which ended over 10 years ago. Warnings have been plastered all over the documentation for ages.
- gok 9y agoTruth.
- x0x0 9y agoThere's something to be said for the MSFT approach of your code will run forever. I understand there's tradeoffs, but there's something to be said for it. Pointing a bunch of whiny users at devs -- some of whom gave code away for free -- is not awesome for the ecosystem. IMO.
- tinus_hn 9y agoNot awesome in the short term, but better in the long term.
- noisem4ker 9y agoBackwards compatibility is a very tangible benefit in the long term.