> Apple for example takes a different route: they have shorter support spans, but rarely invalidate whole technology stacks. Carbon programmers beg to differ.

> Apple for example takes a different route: they have shorter support spans, but rarely invalidate whole technology stacks. Carbon programmers beg to differ. (Full disclosure: I was always a Cocoa guy, so this isn't sour grapes. But if you were paying attention to the OS X development scene as a whole, it was really shocking how fast Carbon went from being more actively developed and having support for more things than Cocoa to being thrown straight into the dumpster.)