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What "whole technology stack" has Microsoft invalidated? How is Cocoa still alive and kicking? How is that different from something like VB6?
by WayneDB 14y ago
What "whole technology stack" has Microsoft invalidated?
How is Cocoa still alive and kicking? How is that different from something like VB6?
- Argorak 14y agoSilverlight? You would never start a new project in it nowadays, would you? Cocoa on the other hand is still the foundation of almost all OS X and iOS programs.
- wtallis 14y agoSince being renamed from OpenStep, Cocoa has gotten hardware-accelerated graphics, two new (one since-deprecated) semi-automatic memory management schemes, 64-bit support, a hardware-accelerated animation system, a new fine-grained security model, closure-based concurrency, and cloud storage support. And yet it's still largely compatible with and recognizable as the framework with which the first web browser was built. And it's still a first-class citizen that Apple uses to write their own apps - it's not just being kept around in maintenance mode.
- ja27 14y agoSilverlight, MFC, ATL, Active Server Pages (pre-ASP.NET), MSN Messenger, Windows 7 desktop gadgets, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 RT (wait, I got ahead of myself - give it a few more months).
- pjmlp 14y agoWebObjects, Java Bindings, Garbage Collector, Quicktime 2/3D, Java Quicktime API, AudioDeviceIO, Carbon....