3 ms·
Yes, as they eventually did with the OS X transition, the 64bit transition etc They'll support older apps for a long time though, it just won't be the preferre
by grey-area 7y ago
Yes, as they eventually did with the OS X transition, the 64bit transition etc
They'll support older apps for a long time though, it just won't be the preferred sdk and will gradually be phased out.
The situation they have right now is madness - two parallel slightly different UI toolkits and SDKs, one of which makes vastly more money.
- Hamuko 7y ago>two parallel slightly different UI toolkits and SDKs, one of which makes vastly more money. And one which has a longer history. Should every Cocoa application be written in UIKit to continue working?
- grey-area 7y agoYes, in the same way as all Pascal apps had to be rewritten to the C API a long time ago, and all Mac OS 9 apps had to be rewritten as cocoa (NextStep), or all Objective-C apps will have to be rewritten as Swift as that is the new blessed SDK. In practice it won't be a huge burden as older apps will not be phased out for a long time - see the Objective-C to Swift transition - there will be a very long transition period. I'm not saying this is great for developers, I'm saying it makes economic sense for Apple and the signs are they are moving in this direction.