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They really love the Kit suffix, eh?

• ketralnis 4y ago
  Why not? No different to the unix lib prefix
• kennywinker 4y ago
  Consistent naming patterns help devs navigate the hierarchy of libraries/frameworks/APIs available. CoreFoo is going to be a low level library for dealing with Foo. FooKit is going to be a high level way to create gui apps that deal with Foo. Likely FooKit uses CoreFoo under the hood.
  • awestroke 4y ago
    And HomeKit is a product for IOT. Not 100% logical naming
• coldtea 4y ago
  It's a NeXT legacy, and it's a mighty fine and nice sounding one, so why not?
• chc 4y ago
  They inherited "AppKit" and "Foundation" from Next and they have been running with that naming convention ever since.