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I think macOS has too large of an API nowadays to try to copy. There are a whole smorgasbord of frameworks. This can only really help with the simplest of Cocoa
by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
I think macOS has too large of an API nowadays to try to copy. There are a whole smorgasbord of frameworks. This can only really help with the simplest of Cocoa applications.
This might be OK though, because I think what a hacker interested in this is really interested is the parts of macOS that are common with NextSTEP. Which are all the parts 20+ years old!
- tgv 5y agoI checked a few files, and a lot of the foundation library have 2007 until 2009 copyright notices. Another random check, CALayer.h and CATransform3D from the Quartz framework, shows terribly limited functionality in comparison to the files on macOS 11.5. The latter comes with 198 frameworks, Airyx has 16, 2 of which don't exist (anymore). Catching up seems an impossible task.
- pjmlp 5y agoJust look at GNUStep for a failed effort to keep up, despite it existing since the golden days of AfterStep and WindowMaker. Does GNUStep even support latest Objective-C runtime?